12 Bücher ähnlich wie Die Liga des Scharlachroten Pimpernells
El Dorado
Baroness Orczy's classic adventure novel El Dorado is the sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel and was first published in 1913. Set in 1794's Paris - which "despite the horrors that had stained her walls - has remained a city of pleasure, and the knife of the guillotine did scarce descend more often than did the drop-scenes on the stage."
Gemeinsame Themen: British -- France -- Fiction, France -- History -- Revolution, Blakeney, Sir Blakeney
Die Frau des Lord Tony
In the midst of the French Revolution, Pierre, a young firebrand, convinces a group of rabble to rise up against the local duc. Coming across the carriage of the duc’s daughter on their march, Pierre assaults her, is run over by the carriage, and disappears. Looking to punish someone for the uprising, the duc has Pierre’s father hanged.
Years later, Pierre has changed his name, gathered some…
Gemeinsame Themen: British -- France -- Fiction, France -- History -- Revolution, Blakeney, Sir Blakeney
Der flüchtige Pimpernell
From the book: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…
Gemeinsame Themen: France -- History -- Revolution, Blakeney, Sir Blakeney, France
Der Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) is a play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution.
Gemeinsame Themen: Blakeney, Sir Blakeney, France, British
Zwischen den Feuern
Between Two Fires is a 2012 historical fiction horror novel by Christopher Buehlman. Set during the Black Death, it follows a disgraced knight and a mysterious young girl who travel across France, as Lucifer and other fallen angels start another war with Heaven.
Gemeinsame Themen: France, Historical Fiction
Der unkommerzielle Reisende
A collection of seventeen sketches which grew out of Dickens' insomnia. He took long walks through London at night and his observations resulted in these sketches.
Gemeinsame Themen: English literature, Classic Literature, History
Der Vicomte von Bragelonne oder: Zehn Jahre später
In the months of March-July in 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV. They chronicled the adventures of a young man named D'Artagnan who, upon…
Gemeinsame Themen: Historical Fiction, Adventure, History
Das Grenzreich
Wes Stone was a lawman—until the Sandlin gang gunned down his legendary father. Now, he's giving up his badge for vengeance...
Gemeinsame Themen: Historical Fiction
Der Mann, der König sein wollte
Rudyard Kipling is world famous for his children stories but here are collected two of his finest novellas. The first is inspired by a true story with a Kipling twist, the story of two British soldiers serving in India becoming rulers of a small isolated kingdom. The second story is the beautiful and heartbreaking story of a forbidden love that is doomed.
Gemeinsame Themen: British, English literature
Zanoni
“Zanoni” is a book about two immortals and their lives during immortality. One being is the cold, calm, heartless, void of all passion; more intellect than man. The other is his pupil, Zanoni, the eternal youth with absolute power and knowledge, and all the capacity to love and be loved and because of that love, despair. Due to his love for his wife and child, he is compelled to remove himself…
Gemeinsame Themen: English literature, Historical Fiction
Noli me tangere
The book revolves on the struggles of young Crisostomo Ibarra: how he humbly fights for his childhood sweetheart Maria Clara, for himself and for his fellowmen against the Spanish priest Padre Damaso and the Spanish Government who were then conquerors of San Diego, his native hometown. Coming home to San Diego from Spain to mourn for his father's death, he learned how his father, a rich…
Gemeinsame Themen: Historical Fiction, Classic Literature, History
Tarzan, der Affenmensch
Set amidst the vibrant colors and sounds of the savage African jungle, this classic work, rich in suspense and action, has beckoned generations of readers on a glorious journey to romance and pure adventure. This is the story of the ape-man Tarzan, raised in the wild by the great ape Kala, and how he learns the secrets of the jungle to survive -- how to talk with the animals, swing through the…
Gemeinsame Themen: British, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature, Adventure