The Emperor's Candlesticks
The Emperor's Candlesticks

Author: Emmuska Orczy

Publisher:

Published: 2017-10-20

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9781978460973

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The Emperor's Candlesticks is a historical novel by Baroness Orczy. Written soon after the birth of her son John, it is her first book as an author rather than translator and was a commercial failure. As in the Scarlet Pimpernel, the theme is international intrigue, but this time the setting is pre-World War One Europe and Russia rather than Revolutionary France. When a group of Russian anarchists kidnap a Russian prince in Vienna there are repercussions. On learning that the Cardinal d'Orsay has agreed to convey some hollow candlesticks from the Emperor to the Princess Marionoff in St Petersburg, two spies both see the possibility of using them to convey messages safely into Russia. One is an eager young idealist involved in the plot against the prince, the other is Madame Demidoff, a beautiful agent of the Tsar. When the candlesticks go missing at the border, the two engage in a race to get them back, both realizing that their very lives could depend on the retrieval.

The Emperor's Candlesticks
The Emperor's Candlesticks

Author: Emmauska Orczy

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-04-11

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1609777573

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Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi (23 September 1865 - 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist, playwright and artist of noble origin. She is most known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. This is one of her novels.

The Emperor's Candlesticks (1899) By. Baroness Orczy / A Historical Novel
The Emperor's Candlesticks (1899) By. Baroness Orczy / A Historical Novel

Author: Baroness Orczy

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-01-05

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781983560439

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A historical novel by Baroness Orczy. Written soon after the birth of her son John, it is her first book as an author rather than translator and was a commercial failure. As in the Scarlet Pimpernel, the theme is international intrigue, but this time the setting is pre-World War One Europe and Russia rather than Revolutionary France

The Emperors Candlesticks
The Emperors Candlesticks

Author: Emmuska Orczy Orczy, Baroness

Publisher:

Published: 2015-11-01

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781518871986

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This is another great book by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, the British-Hungarian novelist, creator of dozens of historical novels of the times of the French Revolution in the XVIII Century. She is best remembered for her main character, Sir Percy Blakeney, AKA The Scarlet Pimpernel, who rescued French aristocrats from the French Revolution:

The Emperor's Candlesticks
The Emperor's Candlesticks

Author: Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Publisher:

Published: 2021-03-28

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13:

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Book Excerpt: ...istocratic face so sweet and tender - crept into her eyes; but when it came, the impatient little sigh and self-contemptuous frown invariably accompanied it. Surely this worldly woman, this elegant grande dame, would not allow even the faintest vestige of sentiment to creep up among her recollections of the gay carnival ball, more especially as that sentiment was evidently directed towards one who ---"Ah me!" Madame Demidoff sighed again, threw away her cigarette, and rang for her maid, all with the idea of putting an end to any more thinking that night.CHAPTER 3As soon as Ivàn Volenski lost sight completely of Madame Demidoff's carriage, he, with a sigh of relief, retraced his steps up the wide stairs of the opera house, and joined a couple of dominoes, who, dressed like himself in uniform grey, stood isolated among the groups of masks that encumbered the entrance to the foyer. Together all three began...