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Emmuska Orczy


Born
in Tarnaörs, Heves County, Hungary
September 23, 1865

Died
November 12, 1947

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Full name: Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi was a Hungarian-British novelist, best remembered as the author of THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1905). Baroness Orczy's sequels to the novel were less successful. She was also an artist, and her works were exhibited at the Royal Academy, London. Her first venture into fiction was with crime stories. Among her most popular characters was The Old Man in the Corner, who was featured in a series of twelve British movies from 1924, starring Rolf Leslie.

Baroness Emmuska Orczy was born in Tarnaörs, Hungary, as the only daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a noted composer and conductor, and his wife Emma. Her father was a friend of such composers as Wagner, Liszt, and Gounod. Orc
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Quotes by Emmuska Orczy  (?)
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“The weariest nights, the longest days, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.”
Baroness Emmuska Orczy

“They seek him here, they seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heaven or is he in hell?
That demned elusive Pimpernel”
Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

“Had he but turned back then, and looked out once more on to the rose-lit garden, she would have seen that which would have made her own sufferings seem but light and easy to bear--a strong man, overwhelmed with his own passion and despair. Pride had given way at last, obstinacy was gone: the will was powerless. He was but a man madly, blindly, passionately in love and as soon as her light footstep had died away within the house, he knelt down upon the terrace steps, and in the very madness of his love he kissed one by one the places where her small foot had trodden, and the stone balustrade, where her tiny hand had rested last.”
Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

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April 2017 Revisit the Shelf Reread

Emma by Jane Austen, 474 pages, 1815
 
  49 votes, 14.7%

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 329 pages, 1856
 
  43 votes, 12.9%

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, 464 pages, 1847
 
  38 votes, 11.4%

East of Eden by John Steinbeck, 601 pages, 1952
 
  25 votes, 7.5%

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, 121 pages, 1898
 
  23 votes, 6.9%

 
  22 votes, 6.6%

Dune by Frank Herbert, 604 pages, 1965
 
  21 votes, 6.3%

 
  18 votes, 5.4%

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, 204 pages, 1905
 
  15 votes, 4.5%

 
  14 votes, 4.2%

 
  13 votes, 3.9%

 
  13 votes, 3.9%

 
  12 votes, 3.6%

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, 213 pages, 1930
 
  10 votes, 3.0%

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, 974 pages, 1849
 
  9 votes, 2.7%

King Lear by William Shakespeare, 338 pages, 1603
 
  9 votes, 2.7%

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