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  • Castles in the Air

    Baroness Emmuska Orczy

    eBook (, May 17, 2012)
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  • Castles in the Air

    Baroness Emma Orczy

    Paperback (E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books, Feb. 21, 2019)
    My name is Ratichon--Hector Ratichon, at your service, and I make so bold as to say that not even my worst enemy would think of minimizing the value of my services to the State. For twenty years now have I placed my powers at the disposal of my country: I have served the Republic, and was confidential agent to Citizen Robespierre; I have served the Empire, and was secret factotum to our great Napoleon; I have served King Louis--with a brief interval of one hundred days-- for the past two years, and I can only repeat that no one, in the whole of France, has been so useful or so zealous in tracking criminals, nosing out conspiracies, or denouncing traitors as I have been.
  • Castles in the Air

    Emmauska Orczy

    eBook (Start Classics, April 11, 2014)
    Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi (23 September 1865 - 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist, playwright and artist of noble origin. She is most known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. This is one of her novels.
  • Castles in the Air

    Baroness Emma Orczy, Taylor Anderson

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Oct. 19, 2017)
    Castles in the Air is a collection of short stories by the famous author Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orci. Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who transforms into a formidable swordsman and a quick-thinking escape artist, establishing the "hero with a secret identity" into popular culture. Odin’s Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind’s literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
  • Castles in the Air

    Baroness Emmuska Orczy

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Nov. 2, 2015)
    This is another great book by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, the British-Hungarian novelist, creator of dozens of historical novels of the times of the French Revolution in the XVIII Century. She is best remembered for her main character, Sir Percy Blakeney, AKA The Scarlet Pimpernel, who rescued French aristocrats from the French Revolution.
  • Castles in the Air

    Baroness Emma Orczy

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Jan. 6, 2016)
    Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865 – 1947) was a Hungarian-born British author and artist best known for writing the Scarlet Pimpernel series, a historical fiction that takes place during the French Revolution. Orczy was also a prolific writer of detective fiction and is still one of the most popular authors today.
  • Castles in the Air

    Baroness Emmuska Orczy

    Paperback (Tutis Digital Publishing Pvt. Ltd., May 28, 2008)
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  • Castles in the Air

    Emmuska Baroness Orczy, Baroness Emmuska Orczy

    Hardcover (Boomer Books, July 30, 2008)
    Mr. Hector Ratichon-onetime aide to Robespierre and confidant of Napoleon Bonaparte-is a rascal and rogue of the highest order. Nevertheless, his service to France and his resulting adventures make entertaining reading. This publication from Boomer Books is specially designed and typeset for comfortable reading.
  • Castles in the Air

    Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Emmuska Orczy

    Paperback (Echo Library, Jan. 1, 2007)
    [ Castles in the Air Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness ( Author ) ] { Paperback } 2007
  • Castles in the Air

    Baroness Emmuska Orczy

    Paperback (Book Jungle, Aug. 3, 2009)
    Baroness Orczy was a Hungarian who moved to London. She became a novelist, painter, and playwright. Orcy's book the Scarlet Pimpernel is her best-known work. Hector Ratichon. "Heureux le peuple qui n'a pas d'histoire" is described by Orczy as follows. "Ratichon is an unblushing liar, thief, a forger--anything you will; his vanity is past belief, his scruples are non-existent. How he escaped a convict settlement it is difficult to imagine, and hard to realize that he died--presumably some years after the event recorded in the last chapter of his autobiography--a respected member of the community, honoured by that same society which should have raised a punitive hand against him." Ratichon served his country by tracking criminals, discovering conspiracies and denouncing traitors. His character is made likeable only by the humor that surrounds him.
  • Castles in the Air

    Baroness Orczy

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, June 14, 2018)
    Castles in the Air by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy is one of greatest works in the field of fiction. Emmuska Orczy was a Hungarian-born British author and artist. Orczy was born of nobility and would go onto become one of the greatest authors of the 20th century.
  • Castles in the Air by Baroness Orczy Juvenile Fiction, Action & Adventure

    Baroness Orczy, Baroness Emmuska Orczy

    Hardcover (Aegypan, May 1, 2008)
    From his early days buffeted by hardship -- sometimes hungry, always thirsty -- to the years of rising success within the French Empire, Ratichon deported himself with wit and vivacity -- and ultimately became confidante to Robespierre, and secret factotum to Napoleon himself. A Paris long forgotten and consigned to the dusty pages of moth-eaten manuscripts comes stirringly alive in Baroness Orczy's Castles in the Air.
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