Lord Tony's Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy
"Lord Tony's Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Orczy is a novel published in 1917. This sequel to "The Scarlet Pimpernel" follows Pierre Adet, a French peasant who assaults an aristocrat's daughter in 1789 and later seeks revenge by assuming a false identity in England. Years later, he manipulates his way into marrying Yvonne de Kernogan to lure her to France and the guillotine. When she elopes with Lord
Antony Dewhurst instead, Adet kidnaps her, forcing Lord Tony to seek help from the legendary Scarlet Pimpernel. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness, 1865-1947 |
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| LoC No. | 18000521 |
| Title | Lord Tony's Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Tony%27s_Wife |
| Credits |
Produced by Brenda Lewis, Carla Foust, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 78.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Historical fiction |
| Subject | France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Fiction |
| Subject | Adventure stories |
| Subject | British -- France -- Fiction |
| Subject | Blakeney, Percy, Sir (Fictitious character) -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 35117 |
| Release Date | Jan 30, 2011 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 7, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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