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Unto Cæsar
Unto Cæsar
Editorial: Good Press
Idioma: Inglés
ISBN: 4066338088697
Formatos: ePub (con DRM de Adobe)
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Unto Cæsar
Unto Cæsar
Editorial: Good Press
Idioma: Inglés
ISBN: 4066338088697
Formatos: ePub (con DRM de Adobe)
Compatibles con:
Windows, Mac, iOS, Android & eReaders
- Sinopsis
- The famed author of "The Scarlet Pimpernel", Baroness Emma Orczy is the author of the novel "Unto Caesar". The novel is set in ancient Rome, at the time of the dreaded Roman Emperor Caligula. The trader Arminius Quirinius had committed every crime, sunk to every kind of degradation which an inordinate love of luxury and the insatiable desires of jaded senses had suggested as a means to satisfaction, until the treachery of his own accomplices had thrown the glaring light of publicity on a career of turpitude such as even those decadent times had seldom witnessed. His suicide had brought a life of extortion and of fraud to an ignominious end through the force of public opinion, and by the decree of that same Cæsar who himself had largely benefited by the mal-practices of his minion. But the subsequent auction of his possessions would become the subject of a far greater controversy than the man himself…
- Acerca de Baroness Orczy
Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865-1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Some of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. In 1903, she and her husband wrote a play based on one of her short stories about an English aristocrat, Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart., who rescued French aristocrats from the French Revolution: The Scarlet Pimpernel. This theatrical success generated huge sales for the novel that followed. She went on to write over a dozen sequels featuring Sir Percy Blakeney, his family, and the other members of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, of which the first, I Will Repay (1906), was the most popular. The last Pimpernel book, Mam'zelle Guillotine, was published in 1940. None of her three subsequent plays matched the success of The Scarlet Pimpernel. She also wrote popular mystery fiction and many adventure romances. Her Lady Molly of Scotland Yard was an early example of a female detective as the main character. During the First World War, Baroness Orczy formed the Women of England's Active Service League, an unofficial organization aimed at the recruitment of male volunteers for active service. Her aim was to enlist 100,000 women who would pledge "to persuade every man I know to offer his service to his country." Some 20,000 women joined her organization.
