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Baroness Emma Orczy Complete Collection Vol. 2: A Son of the People / Beau Brocade / The Nest of the Sparrowhawk
This is the second volume of the complete collection of Baroness Orczy’s works, that we are publishing in their chronological order (the Scarlet Pimpernel collection is published separately). It has been divided in eight volumes, which include 17 novels & 7 short story collections. This volume features three novels :A Son of the People; Beau Brocade; The Nest of the Sparrowhawk
577 pages, Paperback
Published May 28, 2020
About the author
Emmuska Orczy
893 books1,192 followersFull name: Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi was a Hungarian-British novelist, best remembered as the author of THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1905). Baroness Orczy's sequels to the novel were less successful. She was also an artist, and her works were exhibited at the Royal Academy, London. Her first venture into fiction was with crime stories. Among her most popular characters was The Old Man in the Corner, who was featured in a series of twelve British movies from 1924, starring Rolf Leslie.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy was born in Tarnaörs, Hungary, as the only daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a noted composer and conductor, and his wife Emma. Her father was a friend of such composers as Wagner, Liszt, and Gounod. Orczy moved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels and then to London, learning to speak English at the age of fifteen. She was educated in convent schools in Brussels and Paris. In London she studied at the West London School of Art. Orczy married in 1894 Montague Barstow, whom she had met while studying at the Heatherby School of Art. Together they started to produce book and magazine illustrations and published an edition of Hungarian folktales.
Orczy's first detective stories appeared in magazines. As a writer she became famous in 1903 with the stage version of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy was born in Tarnaörs, Hungary, as the only daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a noted composer and conductor, and his wife Emma. Her father was a friend of such composers as Wagner, Liszt, and Gounod. Orczy moved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels and then to London, learning to speak English at the age of fifteen. She was educated in convent schools in Brussels and Paris. In London she studied at the West London School of Art. Orczy married in 1894 Montague Barstow, whom she had met while studying at the Heatherby School of Art. Together they started to produce book and magazine illustrations and published an edition of Hungarian folktales.
Orczy's first detective stories appeared in magazines. As a writer she became famous in 1903 with the stage version of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
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May 27, 2025
A Son of the People: Okay, it took a little bit to get into, but by the end I was hooked!!
Beau Brocade: I had a very hard time following the storyline.
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: It was okay. Not my favorite, but it wasn’t horrible either.
Notable Quotes:
“‘I would sooner never see the sun set again than cause you even one short moment’s anxiety.’”
- Page 280
“Throughout the whole range of suffering which humanity is called upon to endure, there is perhaps nothing so hard to bear as suspense.”
- Page 333
Things to be aware of in “Baroness Emma Orczy Complete Volume 2”
Language: (-2 STARS)
- Countless mentions of the devil in various phrases.
- 2 “a**”
- 18 uses of the Lord’s name in vain such as: “my God”, “good God” (as an expression), “by God” (seven of those are “by Gad”), or by “G——“ (it is marked out)
- 3 “dumb”
- Many mentions of “deep cursing” and “curse him!”
- Numerous instances of “stupid”
- Instances of “Lordy”
- 26 forms of “da*n” (including two “da*n you!”), “da**ed”, “da**ation”, “da**able”, “da**ing” or “d——d” (marked out)
- 2 forms of “stinks like hell” and/or “hellish”
- Name calling including: “idiot”, “fool”, “reprobates”, “you limb of Satan!”, “scarecrow “, “dirty”, “lobsters” and “scarecrow”
- 3 instances of “in the name of Heaven”, “by Heaven” or “in Heaven’s name” (used as an expression often out of anger or frustration)
Violence:
- “Real love” is implied to be husbands physically abusing their wives. “Their husbands must have loved them deeply to be so jealous that they beat them.”
- There are mentions of murder, desired murder and there is an actual murder.
- Hanging is mentioned multiple times
- Characters are bound and gagged
- Whipping is mentioned
- Suicide is mentioned
- A character grips another character by the throat.
Romantic Content:
- Kissing (neck, shoulder, between the eyes)
- A mention of a man having a hard time “keeping the fellows off that slim waist” of a woman.
- Many mentions of the “passion” a man has (in reference to a woman)
- A man’s face is described as “sensual”
Spiritual Content:
(-1 STAR for dishonor against the Lord and His Name)
- Countless mentions of Satan and the devil
- A character swears by a crucifix and it is describes it as a “dumb piece of wood.”
- One “in the name of the Virgin Mary…”
- Many mentions of “gods”
- There are a couple mentions of thoughts and actions that “did not necessarily tend to the glorification of the Lord.”
- There is one mention of “Jonah and the whale.”
- “Let us laugh and be merry—tomorrow is the Jewish Sabbath—and after that Puritanic Sunday—after which, mayhap, we’ll all go to hell, driven thither by my Lord Protector.”
Additional Notes:
- Much wine, ale and alcohol is consumed
- There are talks about the disgrace that will be received if business is done with Jews
- A Jewish man is aggressively forced to eat pork.
- Some characters are described as “fat” or as having a “fat neck” or “fat shoulders.”
- Brief mentions of witches and evil spirits.
- There are talks of hating different people.
- There is a mention of a female’s brain being inferior.
- “Thy ugly French face is abhorrent to me.”
- Gambling is present
- This sentence was just disturbing to me: “She was fair above all women and sweet and pure and tempting to all men like some ripe and juicy fruit ready to fall into a yearning hand.”
Read my full review here: https://kbook-reviews.blogspot.com/20...
Beau Brocade: I had a very hard time following the storyline.
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: It was okay. Not my favorite, but it wasn’t horrible either.
Notable Quotes:
“‘I would sooner never see the sun set again than cause you even one short moment’s anxiety.’”
- Page 280
“Throughout the whole range of suffering which humanity is called upon to endure, there is perhaps nothing so hard to bear as suspense.”
- Page 333
Things to be aware of in “Baroness Emma Orczy Complete Volume 2”
Language: (-2 STARS)
- Countless mentions of the devil in various phrases.
- 2 “a**”
- 18 uses of the Lord’s name in vain such as: “my God”, “good God” (as an expression), “by God” (seven of those are “by Gad”), or by “G——“ (it is marked out)
- 3 “dumb”
- Many mentions of “deep cursing” and “curse him!”
- Numerous instances of “stupid”
- Instances of “Lordy”
- 26 forms of “da*n” (including two “da*n you!”), “da**ed”, “da**ation”, “da**able”, “da**ing” or “d——d” (marked out)
- 2 forms of “stinks like hell” and/or “hellish”
- Name calling including: “idiot”, “fool”, “reprobates”, “you limb of Satan!”, “scarecrow “, “dirty”, “lobsters” and “scarecrow”
- 3 instances of “in the name of Heaven”, “by Heaven” or “in Heaven’s name” (used as an expression often out of anger or frustration)
Violence:
- “Real love” is implied to be husbands physically abusing their wives. “Their husbands must have loved them deeply to be so jealous that they beat them.”
- There are mentions of murder, desired murder and there is an actual murder.
- Hanging is mentioned multiple times
- Characters are bound and gagged
- Whipping is mentioned
- Suicide is mentioned
- A character grips another character by the throat.
Romantic Content:
- Kissing (neck, shoulder, between the eyes)
- A mention of a man having a hard time “keeping the fellows off that slim waist” of a woman.
- Many mentions of the “passion” a man has (in reference to a woman)
- A man’s face is described as “sensual”
Spiritual Content:
(-1 STAR for dishonor against the Lord and His Name)
- Countless mentions of Satan and the devil
- A character swears by a crucifix and it is describes it as a “dumb piece of wood.”
- One “in the name of the Virgin Mary…”
- Many mentions of “gods”
- There are a couple mentions of thoughts and actions that “did not necessarily tend to the glorification of the Lord.”
- There is one mention of “Jonah and the whale.”
- “Let us laugh and be merry—tomorrow is the Jewish Sabbath—and after that Puritanic Sunday—after which, mayhap, we’ll all go to hell, driven thither by my Lord Protector.”
Additional Notes:
- Much wine, ale and alcohol is consumed
- There are talks about the disgrace that will be received if business is done with Jews
- A Jewish man is aggressively forced to eat pork.
- Some characters are described as “fat” or as having a “fat neck” or “fat shoulders.”
- Brief mentions of witches and evil spirits.
- There are talks of hating different people.
- There is a mention of a female’s brain being inferior.
- “Thy ugly French face is abhorrent to me.”
- Gambling is present
- This sentence was just disturbing to me: “She was fair above all women and sweet and pure and tempting to all men like some ripe and juicy fruit ready to fall into a yearning hand.”
Read my full review here: https://kbook-reviews.blogspot.com/20...
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