The Scarlet Pimpernel

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HarperCollins Canada, Limited, 1989 - Juvenile Fiction - 139 pages

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Contents

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Copyright

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About the author (1989)

Emmuska Orczy was born in Tarnaörs, Heves County, Hungary on September 23, 1865. She attended West London School of Art and Heatherley's School of Fine Art. Collaborating with her husband Henry Montague Barstow, she produced and illustrated a translated version of Old Hungarian Fairy Tales in 1895. Her first novel, The Emperor's Candlesticks, was published in 1899. Her other works include In Mary's Reign, The Scarlet Pimpernel, I Will Repay, Mam'zelle Guillotine, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, and The Nest of the Sparrowhawk. She died on November 12, 1947.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Scarlet Pimpernel
Armada Classics
AuthorsBaroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy, Emmuska Orczy
EditorDoris Dickens
Illustrated byJames Mayhew
Editionreprint
PublisherHarperCollins Canada, Limited, 1989
ISBN0006934005, 9780006934004
Length139 pages
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Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General
Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Europe
  
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