- Classic Literature, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Aristocracy (Social class)
Baroness Orczy's classic adventure novel El Dorado is the sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel and was first published in 1913. Set in 1794's Paris - which "despite the horrors that had stained her walls - has remained a city of pleasure, and the knife of the guillotine did scarce descend more often than did the drop-scenes on the stage."
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Classical in form, resolved, plot-driven and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Emma Orczy
- First published
- 1913
- Pages
- 435
- Publisher
- IndyPublish.com, eBooksLib, Outlook Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
- Editions
- 246
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9798547007873
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“AND yet people found the opportunity to amuse themselves, to dance and to go to the theatre, to enjoy music and open air cafes and promenades in the Palais Royal.”
Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi was born in Tarnaörs, Heves County, Hungary, the daughter of composer Baron Felix Orczy and Countess Emma Wass. In 1868, fearing a potential peasant revolution, her parents left Hungary. They lived in Budapest, Brussels, and Paris before settling in London in 1880. Orczy attended West London School of Art and then Heatherley's School of Fine Art. In 1894, she married illustrator Montague MacLean Barstow, whom she had met at art school. The couple had very little money, and Orczy started to work with her husband as a translator and an illustrator. In 1899, she had a child, and published her first novel, The Emperor's
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