The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.
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About Emmuska Orczy
Emmuska Orczy was a 19th-century British born british novelist and playwright. Baroness Emma Magdalena Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci, usually known as Baroness Orczy, was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring The Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save French aristocrats from "Madame Guillotine" during the French Revolution, establishing the "hero with a secret identity" in popular culture. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation
- Imagination — The creative power of the mind and visionary thinking