Baroness Emmuska Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel 腥红色的繁笺花

作者：Baroness Emmuska Orczy

国别：Albania/阿尔巴尼亚

出版日期：1899-12

中文名：腥红色的繁笺花

《杯酒人生》或《假面舞会》的英文原著

内容简介 . . .

　　The Scarlet Pimpernel is by far the best known not only of Orczy?s works but also of stories set during the French Revolution, although the Hungarian-born novelist wrote many more historical novels and a number of sequels to this 1905 novel. It has been dramatised and also filmed a number of times with great success and is a fun if not always historically accurate or wholly convincing story. The novel tells of the mysterious and much spoken-of League of the Scarlet Pimpernel. This group is led by the cunning and noble Sir Percy Blakeney who with accomplices risks life and limb rescuing the innocents caught up in the Reign of Terror in Paris. His disguises and other inventive ways of eluding capture stretch to his anonymity even amongst the English. It is an entertaining yarn, as suited to children as adults but none the worse for its simplicity.

作者简介 . . .

　　Emmuska Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara Orczy was born an aristocrat in Hungary in 1865 to Felix Orczy, a baron of Tarna-Ors, and the former countess Emma Wass. Her father was a member of the court of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a landowner, and a composer and conductor of some repute. The family lived happily in Hungary for the first few years of her life, but when her father's attempt to update his tenants ' farming methods resulted in an uprising, the family fled for their safety. In Budapest her father pursued his music and counted Wagner and Liszt among his friends. He also held the position of supreme administrator of the Budapest National Theater.