Castles in the Air

By Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness

Book Id: WPLBN0002954539
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File Size: 222.96 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Castles in the Air
Author:	Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction, Short stories
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Castles in the Air
Historic Publication Date:	1921
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Emmuska Orczy, B. B. (1921). Castles in the Air. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

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Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma (Emmuska) Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi) (September 23, 1865 – November 12, 1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Castles in the Air, a short novel or perhaps more like a collection of short stories with memories of a French Rouge in the early 19th century Paris, was published in 1921 and about it I quote from the foreword: In very truth my good friend Ratichon is an unblushing liar, thief, a forger--anything you will; his vanity is past belief, his scruples are non-existent. How he escaped a convict settlement it is difficult to imagine, and hard to realize that he died--presumably some years after the event recorded in the last chapter of his autobiography--a respected member of the community, honoured by that same society which should have raised a punitive hand against him. (Summary by Wikipedia, Lars Rolander and Emma Orczy)

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Fiction, Short stories