Baroness Orczy
12 books by Baroness Orczy to read free, each with its best passages and lines, and the best quotes from all of them below.
Where to start
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
A daring Englishman with a secret identity rescues French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution.
85,203 words, about 6 hours
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El Dorado
Two separate interests want to free the imprisoned Dauphin of France.
123,131 words, about 9 hours
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The Old Man in the Corner
An elderly man explains to a woman reporter how he solved crimes that stumped the local police.
70,697 words, about 5 hours
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The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
A collection of short stories featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel.
75,914 words, about 5 hours
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I Will Repay
A young woman pursues revenge against the man who killed her brother in a duel years before.
64,173 words, about 5 hours
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Lord Tony’s Wife
A young woman and her father are kidnapped by a man intent on revenge for his father’s death.
89,752 words, about 6 hours
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Pimpernel and Rosemary
A famous journalist is drawn into the intrigues of two Eastern European nations in the aftermath of World War I.
107,438 words, about 8 hours
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Sir Percy Hits Back
A young woman doing a good deed is inadvertently caught up in the injustice of the French Revolution.
89,274 words, about 6 hours
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The Elusive Pimpernel
A French official schemes to finally catch the Scarlet Pimpernel.
84,688 words, about 6 hours
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The First Sir Percy
A man and his followers try again to overthrow the Stadtholder of the Netherlands.
91,946 words, about 6 hours
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The Laughing Cavalier
An ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel is recruited to kidnap a woman for a few days.
128,283 words, about 9 hours
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The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
A woman is kidnapped in order to trap her husband.
90,804 words, about 6 hours
Baroness Orczy quotes
The lust of blood grows with its satisfaction, there is no satiety: the crowd had seen a hundred noble heads fall beneath the guillotine today, it wanted to make sure that it would see another hundred fall on the morrow.
Death knocked at so many doors these days!
There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation.
It was not, Heaven help us all! a very uncommon occurrence these days: a woman almost unsexed by misery, starvation, and the abnormal excitement engendered by daily spectacles of revenge and of cruelty.
Everyone felt that farce was turning to tragedy.
“Tyrant! tyrant! tyrant!”
There comes a time when a doctor, knowing that his patient cannot recover, is bound in all humanity to tell him.
The place was called Les Amandiers because at the back of the house there were two anaemic almond-trees with gaunt, twisted arms which covered themselves in the spring with sickly blooms, and in the summer with dust.
The man-eating tiger for the space of a sigh licked his powerful jaws and pondered!
It was a bitterly cold night of mid-March in that cruel winter of 1624, which lent so efficient a hand to the ghouls of war and of disease in taking toll of human lives.
“There goes a lucky devil,” said a mocking voice in tones wherein ripples of laughter struggled forever for mastery.
The tyrant out of his vaulting ambition had brought forth the slaves.
B-r-r-r-r! I am as wet as a herring! Dieu! has anyone ever seen such a contemptible climate?
But the path was so profusely strewn with scented narcissi that Armand’s sensitive conscience was quickly lulled to rest by the intoxicating fragrance.
As often as not my sympathies go to the criminal who is clever and astute enough to lead our entire police force by the nose.
The evil we do, Monsieur, is within us; it does not come from circumstance.
The death of an heir of the Marnys is an event that history makes a note of.
Silence. Loneliness. Desolation.
We hold our lives cheap, I think, because throughout our history we have always had to sacrifice them for our country.
But views and winding rivers, snowy peaks and medieval fortresses did not interest Baptiste Portal’s customers nearly as much as the price of almonds or the alarming increase in the cost of living.