The Laughing Cavalier (The Scarlet Pimpernel (chronological order) #0.4)

Emmuska Orczy


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4.00 · 10 ratings · 480 pages · Published: 1914

The Laughing Cavalier by Emmuska Orczy
This 1913 adventure tale, The Laughing Cavalier, centres on Percy Blakeney, a foreign adventurer and the progenitor of Baroness Orczy's well-known figure, the Scarlet Pimpernel. Frans Hals' artwork The Laughing Cavalier served as the model for a section of the story, which takes place in Holland between 1623 and 1624. In the novel, the subject of the Laughing Cavalier is Blakeney, Frans Hals' adopted son.

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