Collected Works of Baroness Orczy

by Emmuska Orczy

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi (23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British playwright, and novelist. Collected Works of Baroness Orczy (with an active table of contents) ,includes‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ Laughing CavalierThe First Sir PercyThe Scarlet PimpernelThe League of the Scarlet PimperneI Will RepayThe Elusive PimpernelEl DoradoLord Tony’s WifeOther BrocadeA Bride of the PlainsThe Bronze EagleThe Nest of the SparrowhawkThe Heart of a WomanHis Majesty’s Well-BelovedLeatherfaceThe Tangled SkeinUnto CaesarShort Story Man in GreyLady Molly of Scotland YardThe Old Man in the CornerCastles in the AirPetticoat Rule

Genres: Classics

6524 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 10, 2014

About the author

Full name: Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi was a Hungarian-British novelist, best remembered as the author of THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1905). Baroness Orczy's sequels to the novel were less successful. She was also an artist, and her works were exhibited at the Royal Academy, London. Her first venture into fiction was with crime stories. Among her most popular characters was The Old Man in the Corner, who was featured in a series of twelve British movies from 1924, starring Rolf Leslie.

Baroness Emmuska Orczy was born in Tarnaörs, Hungary, as the only daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a noted composer and conductor, and his wife Emma. Her father was a friend of such composers as Wagner, Liszt, and Gounod. Orczy moved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels and then to London, learning to speak English at the age of fifteen. She was educated in convent schools in Brussels and Paris. In London she studied at the West London School of Art. Orczy married in 1894 Montague Barstow, whom she had met while studying at the Heatherby School of Art. Together they started to produce book and magazine illustrations and published an edition of Hungarian folktales.

Orczy's first detective stories appeared in magazines. As a writer she became famous in 1903 with the stage version of the Scarlet Pimpernel.

Reviews

[Blamdarot · Rating 3 out of 5]

Many Typos

Wonderful stories by a terrific author. It's a shame the kindle version wasn't proofread better. I certainly doubt this number of typos were in the original text.

[Dom Hargreaves · Rating 3 out of 5]

*I’ve only read The Great Pearl Mystery*

To be honest, not the strongest I’ve ever read ever but it was entertaining! I enjoyed the plot, the writing style was different, and the twist though low-key predictable for me, was interesting and it kept me on my toes! Yeah not bad Orczy!