Paris, 1794. Robespierre’s reign of terror is still wreaking its bloody havoc, but the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel is still at large. Will he triumph? Or might he be betrayed by…

Unto Caesar, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its…

Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1915, The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days, is a romance set in France following the period of the Revolution…

English novelist and playwright Baroness Emmuska Orczy achieved enduring success with her novels of politics and intrigue set during the time of the French Revolution.

It is Paris, 1793, the most seething time of the revolution. No one knew in the morning if his head would still be on his shoulders in the evening, or…

The story starts in 1624 in the Netherlands and concerns the Scarlet Pimpernel’s ancestor, Diogenes, aka the first Sir Percy Blakeney. Diogenes and his friends Socrates and Pythagoras swear allegiance…

During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that France had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names…

Hungarian-British novelist, best remembered as the author of The Scarlet Pimpernell. Baroness Orczy’s sequels to the novel were less successful. Petticoat Government begins: D'Aumont! Eh? D'Aumont! The voice, that of…