By the Gods Beloved - Hardcover

Orczy, Baroness Emmuska

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0727402714 ISBN 13: 9780727402714

Verlag: TBS The Book Service Ltd, 1977

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Biografía del autor

Baroness Orczy was born in Hungary in 1865, the daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a landed aristocrat and well-known composer and conductor. Shemoved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels and then Paris, where she was educated. Orczy alsostudied art in London and exhibited work atthe Royal Academy. Later sheMontagu Barstow and together they worked as illustrators and jointly published an edition of Hungarian folk tales. Fame came in1905 with the publication of The Scarlet Pimpernel, which was originally a play co-written with her husband. Its background of Revolution in France and swashbuckling hero, 'Sir Percy Blakeney', was to prove immensely popular. Sequels followed and many years later film and TV versions are enduringly popular, with new productions from time to time. However, Orczy alsoalso wrote detective stories which have a following today amongst those intersted in the genre. She died in 1947.

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Mark and Hugh are school friends. When Mark visits Hugh's house, where there is the most odd museum, complete with mummies. For Hugh's father is an archaeologist and Egyptologist. One day, Mark receives word from his friend to 'Come at once if you can.' He finds Hugh has taken over his father's work and is in possession of a secret encoded in a papyrus that is thousands of years old. He has discovered that the descendants of the ancient pharaohs are still living in the Lybian desert. The two friends set out at once for Egypt. Their journey involves incredible adventures, strange sights, a beautiful princess and great dangers...

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• Verlag: TBS The Book Service Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0727402714
• ISBN 13: 9780727402714
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 156