| The Elusive Pimpernel Contributor(s): Orczy, Emmuska (Author), Orczy, Baroness Emmuska (Author), 1stworld Library (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1421801094 ISBN-13: 9781421801094 Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2005 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.03 lbs) 368 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - There was not even a reaction. On ever on in that wild, surging torrent; sowing the wind of anarchy, of terrorism, of lust of blood and hate, and reaping a hurricane of destruction and of horror. On ever on France, with Paris and all her children still rushes blindly, madly on; defies the powerful coalition, - Austria, England, Spain, Prussia, all joined together to stem the flow of carnage, - defies the Universe and defies God Paris this September 1793 - or shall we call it Vendemiaire, Year I. of the Republic? - call it what we will Paris a city of bloodshed, of humanity in its lowest, most degraded aspect. France herself a gigantic self-devouring monster, her fairest cities destroyed, Lyons razed to the ground, Toulon, Marseilles, masses of blackened ruins, her bravest sons turned to lustful brutes or to abject cowards seeking safety at the cost of any humiliation. |