The Scarlet Pimpernel Looks at the World

The Scarlet Pimpernel (chronological order) #11.8

by Emmuska Orczy

Sir Percy Blakeney comments on the modern world of the 1930s.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Classics

128 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1933

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

[Gregg Chamberlain · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very amusing treatise by the Baroness, through her most well-known creation, of modern society, at least of the first half of the 20th century. Most of what Sir Percy discourses on and comments about is as true now as it was when this rare volume first saw print.

[Geneva · Rating 2 out of 5]

I actually didn’t quite finish this book, are used www.blakeneymanner.com and found the text version. I would say skip this book all together. The title isn’t good, does technically the whole entire book is confusing and not as good as any of her other books.
www.blakeneymanor.com are used the free text version. By the way, the mistakes in this review, I am using dictation, so please forgive me

[Thor The Redbeard · Rating 2 out of 5]

3/10