I Will Repay: A Classic Historical Adventure of the French Revolution
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ISBN13: 9781617201363
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Feb 22 2011
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
I Will Repay is Baroness Orczy's 1906 sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, a historical adventure of revenge, disguise, loyalty, and danger during the French Revolution. Set in Paris in 1793, the novel returns to the world of Sir Percy Blakeney and the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, where aristocrats live under the threat of the guillotine and private loyalties are tested against revolutionary violence. At the centre of the story is a promise of vengeance, a troubled romance, and the constant risk that courage may arrive too late.
Orczy's fiction helped define the modern masked-hero adventure, combining melodrama, suspense, romance, political danger, and swashbuckling rescue into a form that influenced later popular fiction. I Will Repay is both a Scarlet Pimpernel novel and a classic work of historical adventure, drawing its energy from secrets, divided loyalties, old wrongs, and the theatrical peril of Revolutionary France. For readers of classic adventure fiction, historical romance, French Revolution fiction, and early twentieth-century popular literature, this novel remains a lively continuation of Orczy's most famous fictional world.
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