Baroness Orczy: Collected Works (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. The Scarlet Pimpernel Series, Beau Brocade, The Heart of a Woman, The Bronze Eagle, The Old Man in the Corner, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard…By Emma Orczy
Length380h 47m
About this audiobook
Baroness Orczy: Collected Works gathers the fiction of Emma Orczy, best known for The Scarlet Pimpernel, alongside the historical romances, adventure tales, and detective stories that made her a defining popular writer of the early twentieth century. Her prose combines melodramatic momentum, aristocratic intrigue, and a theatrical sense of concealment and revelation. Situated between Victorian sensation fiction and modern genre literature, these works helped shape the masked-hero adventure, the spy romance, and early crime fiction. Born Emmuska Orczy in Hungary in 1865, Orczy emigrated with her family to England after political unrest disrupted their estate. Her continental background, émigré experience, and fascination with revolution deeply informed her imaginative world, especially her recurring concern with loyalty, class, honor, and political violence. Trained as an artist and dramatist before becoming a novelist, she brought visual vividness and stagecraft to her narratives. This collection is recommended for readers interested in the origins of popular genre fiction, historical adventure, and the cultural imagination of empire and revolution. It offers both absorbing entertainment and valuable insight into how romance, suspense, and heroism were refashioned for modern mass readership.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length380 hrs 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 11, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Baroness Orczy: Collected Works (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Author Biography
4Historical Context
5Synopsis (Selection)
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6BARONESS ORCZY Ultimate Collection: 130+ Action-Adventure Novels, Thrillers & Detective Stories
7The Scarlet Pimpernel Series
8The Laughing Cavalier
9AN APOLOGY
10THE PROLOGUE
11CHAPTER I NEW YEAR'S EVE
12CHAPTER II THE FRACAS BY THE POSTERN GATE
13CHAPTER III AN INTERLUDE
14CHAPTER IV WATCH-NIGHT
15CHAPTER V BROTHER AND SISTER
16CHAPTER VI THE COUNSELS OF PRUDENCE
17CHAPTER VII THREE PHILOSOPHERS AND THEIR FRIENDS
18CHAPTER VIII THE LODGINGS WHICH WERE PAID FOR
19CHAPTER IX THE PAINTER OF PICTURES
20CHAPTER X THE LAUGHING CAVALIER
21CHAPTER XI THE BARGAIN
22CHAPTER XII THE PORTRAIT
23CHAPTER XIII THE SPANISH WENCH
24CHAPTER XIV AFTER EVENSONG
25CHAPTER XV THE HALT AT BENNEBROCK
26CHAPTER XVI LEYDEN
27CHAPTER XVII AN UNDERSTANDING
28CHAPTER XVIII THE START
29CHAPTER XIX IN THE KINGDOM OF THE NIGHT
30CHAPTER XX BACK AGAIN IN HAARLEM
31CHAPTER XXI A GRIEF-STRICKEN FATHER
32CHAPTER XXII A DOUBLE PLEDGE
33CHAPTER XXIII A SPY FROM THE CAMP
34CHAPTER XXIV THE BIRTH OF HATE
35CHAPTER XXV AN ARRANT KNAVE
36CHAPTER XXVI BACK TO HOUDEKERK
37CHAPTER XXVII THENCE TO ROTTERDAM
38CHAPTER XXVIII CHECK
39CHAPTER XXIX CHECK AGAIN
40CHAPTER XXX A NOCTURNE
41CHAPTER XXXI THE MOLENS
42CHAPTER XXXII A RUN THROUGH THE NIGHT
43CHAPTER XXXIII THE CAPTIVE LION
44CHAPTER XXXIV PROTESTATIONS
45CHAPTER XXXV THE WITNESS FOR THE DEFENCE
46CHAPTER XXXVI BROTHER PHILOSOPHERS
47CHAPTER XXXVII DAWN
48CHAPTER XXVIII THE HOUR
49CHAPTER XXXIX "SAUVE QUI PEUT"
50CHAPTER XL THE LOSER PAYS
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