|
Post by Patricia Uttaro on Oct 28, 2010 19:16:21 GMT -5
1. Sherwood Anderson — Winesburg, Ohio 2. Edgar Rice Burroughs — Jungle Tales of Tarzan 3. Joseph Hergesheimer - Linda Condon 4. Hermann Hesse — Demian 5. W. Somerset Maugham — The Moon and Sixpence 6. Baroness Orczy - The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel 7. Mary Augusta Ward - Fields of Victory 8. Virginia Woolf — Night and Day 9. A. A. Milne - The Camberley Triangle 10. H. L. Mencken - The American Language
Publishers Weekly Best Sellers of 1919
1. Vicente Blasco Ibanez – The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 2. Joseph Conrad – The Arrow of Gold 3. Zane Grey – The Desert of Wheat 4. Mary Roberts Rinehart – Dangerous Days 5. Ralph Connor – The Sky Pilot in No Man’s Land 6. Harold Bell Wright – The Re-Creation of Brian Kent 7. Gene Stratton Porter – Dawn 8. Temple Bailey – The Tin Soldier 9. Elizabeth von Arnim – Christopher and Columbus 10. Robert W. Chambers – In Secret
|
|
|
Post by Patricia Uttaro on Apr 23, 2011 19:26:04 GMT -5
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
I have fond memories of reading the book to which this one is a sequel – The Scarlet Pimpernel – one hot summer in between high school semesters. I was reading anything I could find about the French Revolution, and a librarian at the Gates Library recommended Baroness Orczy and the Pimpernel, which I devoured.
I had not realized there was a sequel until I started creating the lists for this reading project, and was delighted to find my old friend Percy Blakeney among the choices. In fact, I discovered there are a great many sequels to the original Pimpernel, which I’m sure will lead to much more reading for me!
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel picks up with Sir Percy still rescuing unfortunate maidens and righting wrongs in post Revolution France, albeit in a collection of short stories instead of one longer novel. Each vignette has Percy or another member of The League righting wrongs committed against members the aristocracy or members of their staff. Children are rescued, fortunes restored, and lives set aright, all at the hand of the man with the twinkling blue eyes that can turn to steel in a second.
An entertaining read for fans of the spy genre and historical fiction.
4 out of 5 catalog cards.
|
|