Eldorado [Paperback]

Baroness Orczy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 23, 2008

Armand St Just, his beautiful sister Marguerite and her husband Sir Percy Blakeney are once again caught up in the turmoil of revolutionary France. And adventurer Baron de Batz enters the story. It is 1794 and Paris, 'despite the horrors that had stained her walls - had remained a city of pleasure, and the knife of the guillotine did scarce descend more often than did the drop-scenes on the stage.'

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About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 422 pages
• Publisher: House of Stratus (September 23, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0755111125
• ISBN-13: 978-0755111121
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,634,472 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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48 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Before you get mad..., February 18, 2000

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Gwen Kramer "gwenhwyvar" (Sunny and not-so-sunny California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eldorado (Hardcover)

...you should know one small fact. This copy is ABRIDGED!

Whoever did it did not see fit to inform readers of this but the fact remains. Three whole chapters were cut from this edition.

I totally agree that this book is really great but I also like to know that I am reading the whole book.

Try to find an older edition, read it and see what I mean. It will make much more sense

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As good as the original novel, April 6, 1999

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[e-mail] (Barre, VT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eldorado (Hardcover)

In many ways this book is even better than the first novel in the series. It is better written and the characters are more fleshed out than in any "pimpernel" book that came before or after it. The beautiful relationship between Percy and Marguerite is at the heart of the story, which also heavily involves Armand Saint-Just, who is in trouble again. The depth of the league's love and devotion to Percy is also brought to the fore front as Percy is captured and tortured by Chauvelin and his goons. If you love Percy, get your kleenex ready before you begin the book, because some truly terrible methods of persuasion are used against our hero. There are some absolutely wonderful scenes between Percy and Marguerite as she visits him in the jail in a pretty sad state physically. The Baroness waxed on and on in the earlier chapters about how much the leaguers loved Percy, so when he's stuck in the Conciegerie being tormented, you just want to holler "WHERE'S THE FREAKIN'LEAGUE! GET HIM OUT OF THERE!"

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sleepless in Paris, March 7, 2000

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Cindy Harper-Gosselin - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eldorado (Hardcover)

When Armand St. Just falls in love, he must choose between his loyalty to the Scarlet Pimpernel and his passion for the woman of his dreams. The question is, how far will he go to protect her? Armand tells Percy, "You do not know what it is to love." And Percy agrees with him!

By far, Eldorado is one of the Baroness' best works. However, the text has been heavily edited. There are sentences, paragraphs, and whole chapters that have been edited out.

Still, the book is well worth the wait. The scene where Chauvelin teaches Percy how to spell the name "C-h-a-u-v-e-l-i-n" is priceless! Even edited, I'd rank it five stars!