Adventure books from Hungary
Recommended adventure books (2)
Travel the world without leaving your chair.
If you are into adventure here are some adventure books from Hungary for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy EN
Description:
The first and most successful in the Baroness’s series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel “has almost reached its first centenary, and it is as vivid and appealing as ever because the plotting is perfect. It is a classic example of how to construct, pace, and conclude a plot. . . . To rise on the crest of laughter without capsizing, to survive being written, rewritt... continue