Author: Emma Orczy
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 802724580X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
"The First Sir Percy" is a sequel to The Laughing Cavalier, occurring a few months after the events in the first book. It is March 1624 in Holland. Two months earlier, a mercenary who calls himself "Diogenes" foiled the plot on the life of the Stadtholder, Prince of Orange. Now, he has finally met his real father, an English nobleman, and realized his true identity as Sir Percy Blake of Blakeney, heir to a large estate in Sussex. "The Laughing Cavalier" revolves around Percy Blake, a foreign adventurer and ancestor of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel. In March 1623, the Dutch nobleman Willem, Lord of Stoutenburg, is on the run. His father, the statesman Johan was falsely accused of treason and sent to the gallows by the Stadtholder, Prince of Orange. Willem's brother Reinier has since been arrested and executed for plotting to kill the Prince. Stoutenburg is now a fugitive and determined to get his revenge.
THE LAUGHING CAVALIER (& Its Sequel The First Sir Percy)
Author: Emma Orczy
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 802724580X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
"The First Sir Percy" is a sequel to The Laughing Cavalier, occurring a few months after the events in the first book. It is March 1624 in Holland. Two months earlier, a mercenary who calls himself "Diogenes" foiled the plot on the life of the Stadtholder, Prince of Orange. Now, he has finally met his real father, an English nobleman, and realized his true identity as Sir Percy Blake of Blakeney, heir to a large estate in Sussex. "The Laughing Cavalier" revolves around Percy Blake, a foreign adventurer and ancestor of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel. In March 1623, the Dutch nobleman Willem, Lord of Stoutenburg, is on the run. His father, the statesman Johan was falsely accused of treason and sent to the gallows by the Stadtholder, Prince of Orange. Willem's brother Reinier has since been arrested and executed for plotting to kill the Prince. Stoutenburg is now a fugitive and determined to get his revenge.
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 802724580X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
"The First Sir Percy" is a sequel to The Laughing Cavalier, occurring a few months after the events in the first book. It is March 1624 in Holland. Two months earlier, a mercenary who calls himself "Diogenes" foiled the plot on the life of the Stadtholder, Prince of Orange. Now, he has finally met his real father, an English nobleman, and realized his true identity as Sir Percy Blake of Blakeney, heir to a large estate in Sussex. "The Laughing Cavalier" revolves around Percy Blake, a foreign adventurer and ancestor of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel. In March 1623, the Dutch nobleman Willem, Lord of Stoutenburg, is on the run. His father, the statesman Johan was falsely accused of treason and sent to the gallows by the Stadtholder, Prince of Orange. Willem's brother Reinier has since been arrested and executed for plotting to kill the Prince. Stoutenburg is now a fugitive and determined to get his revenge.
The Greatest British Classics
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 9536
Book Description
Good Press presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices: Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) Paradise Lost (John Milton) Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Henry Fielding) Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne) Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray) Ode to the West Wind (P. B. Shelley) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) Odes (John Keats) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Middlemarch (George Eliot) David Copperfield (Charles Dickens) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy) The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim) Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence) The Mysteries of Udolpho (Ann Ward Radcliffe) Dracula (Bram Stoker) A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) Diary of a Nobody (George and Weedon Grossmith) The Time Machine (H. G. Wells) The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells) The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins) The Innocence of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton) Howards End (E. M. Forster) The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot) Ulysses (James Joyce) Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) Arms and the Man (George Bernard Shaw) The Second Coming (W. B. Yeats) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) Phantastes (George MacDonald) Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie)
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 9536
Book Description
Good Press presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices: Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) Paradise Lost (John Milton) Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Henry Fielding) Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne) Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray) Ode to the West Wind (P. B. Shelley) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) Odes (John Keats) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Middlemarch (George Eliot) David Copperfield (Charles Dickens) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy) The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim) Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence) The Mysteries of Udolpho (Ann Ward Radcliffe) Dracula (Bram Stoker) A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) Diary of a Nobody (George and Weedon Grossmith) The Time Machine (H. G. Wells) The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells) The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins) The Innocence of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton) Howards End (E. M. Forster) The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot) Ulysses (James Joyce) Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) Arms and the Man (George Bernard Shaw) The Second Coming (W. B. Yeats) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) Phantastes (George MacDonald) Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie)
The Laughing Cavalier
Author: Baroness Orczy
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 075512734X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The year is 1623, the place Haarlem in the Netherlands. Diogenes – the first Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel’s ancestor – and his friends Pythagoras and Socrates defend justice and the royalist cause.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 075512734X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The year is 1623, the place Haarlem in the Netherlands. Diogenes – the first Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel’s ancestor – and his friends Pythagoras and Socrates defend justice and the royalist cause.
The First Sir Percy
Author: Baroness Orczy
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755116593
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The story starts in 1624 in the Netherlands and concerns the Scarlet Pimpernel's ancestor, Diogenes, aka the first Sir Percy Blakeney. Diogenes and his friends Socrates and Pythagoras swear allegiance to the royalist cause. Their undivided loyalty results in many adventures - and more than one foe.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755116593
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The story starts in 1624 in the Netherlands and concerns the Scarlet Pimpernel's ancestor, Diogenes, aka the first Sir Percy Blakeney. Diogenes and his friends Socrates and Pythagoras swear allegiance to the royalist cause. Their undivided loyalty results in many adventures - and more than one foe.
Books of 1912-
Author: Chicago Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Bulletin of Additions to the Libraries, Classified, Annotated and Indexed...
Author: Glasgow (Scotland). Public Libraries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Book Bulletin of the Chicago Public Library
Author: Chicago Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Book Bulletin
Author: Chicago Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
A List of English & American Sequel Stories
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The Editor
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description