Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy

Armand St Just, his beautiful sister Marguerite and her husband Sir Percy Blakeney are once again caught up in the turmoil of revolutionary France. And adventurer Baron de Batz enters the story. It is 1794 and Paris had remained a city of pleasure, with the knife of the guillotine dropping less frequently. But this could change ....

Eldorado

Heather Wood

Romantic, suspenseful, and detailed. I read this out loud to my husband. We did not love Armand's instalove that made him make such ridiculous choices. I've never seen this kind of behavior from grown people in real life in my entire life, so it was not believable for us. We just went, "well, this is the dark side of the romanticism the French are famous for!"
Each chapter had us holding our breath as chapter after chapter advanced the story very little. We always joked, "are we going to get down the hall in this chapter? Will the next chapter get us out into the porch?" That's how slowly it progressed, with all the detail and feelings Orczy wanted us to experience in each scene. So the suspense was spot on.
The end wrapped up quickly. Glad to see Percy and Marguerite still alive and going strong, and his treatment of Armand's betrayal is convicting and inspiring.

Lastly, this book had way too many uses of the word wan. I don't really know how to pronounce wan. I will say that I've never heard it used in every other sentence before now. We also had plenty carryover of "imperturbable," that unpronounceable (to me) darling from The Scarlet Pimpernel, and preemptory. Ah the joys of reading aloud!

Emmuska Orczy

Denne bog er en fortsættelse af Emmuska Orczys mest berømte bog, `I den røde Pimpernels tegn‘ fra 1905. I ‘Eldorado‘ er vi stadig i Paris, midt i den franske revolution. Flere og flere dør i de voldsomme kampe, og der er igen brug for den Røde Pimpernels tidstedeværelse. Den unge, Dauphin, søn af Louis XVI og Marie Antoinette, er guillotinens næste offer, og ingen tør forsøge at befri den lille prins – udover den Røde Pimpernel ... Emmuska Orczy var en ungarsk-britisk forfatterinde og kunstner, bedst husket for bogen ‘I den røde Pimpernels tegn‘ fra 1905. Hun blev født i Tarnaörs, Ungarn, som datter af baronen Felix Orczy og hans kone Emma. Faderen var komponist, og venner med folk som Wagner, Liszt og Gounod. Familien flyttede fra Budapest til Bruxelle, og sidenhen til London, og derfor lærte Emmuska Orczy at tale engelsk som 15-årig. Hun blev uddannet på kunstskoler, og startede senere hen en illustrationsvirksomhed med sin mand, Montague Barstow.

Eldorado

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