Baroness Emma Orczy, Taylor Anderson
The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Oct. 18, 2017)
The Laughing Cavalier is a 1913 adventure novel by Baroness Orczy, which revolves around Percy Blake, a foreign adventurer and ancestor of Orczy's famous character, the Scarlet Pimpernel. The story takes place in Holland in 1623/1624 and is partly inspired by Frans Hals' painting The Laughing Cavalier: in the novel, Blake is Frans Hals' adopted son and the man who poses for the painting of the Laughing Cavalier. The sequel to this book, continuing the story of Percy Blake, is The First Sir Percy. 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.
- ISBN
- 1978414188 / 9781978414181
- Pages
- 248
- Weight
- 15.4 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.6 in.
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