Read and Download Ebook Lord Tony's Wife... Lord Tony's Wife Emmuska Orczy PDF File: Lord Tony's Wife... 1 Read and Download Ebook Lord Tony's Wife... Lord Tony's Wife Emmuska Orczy Lord Tony's Wife Emmuska Orczy Lord Tony's Wife is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. Plot summary: The year is 1789 and Pierre Adet, a young French peasant, is incensed at the unfair treatment of the local peasantry, who are no more better off than slaves to the local aristo. His brother-in-law is about to be hanged for poaching two pigeons from the woods belonging to the Duc de Kernogan in Nantes and this proves the final straw. After months of planning Pierre leads a mob against the Duc against the advice of his father. Before the mob have had the chance to storm the Chateau, they come across the Duc's daughter Yvonne returning home and attack her carriage. In the ensuing scuffle, Adet assaults Yvonne 'And just to punish you, my fine lady, ' he said in a whisper which sent a shudder of horror right through her, 'to punish you for what you are, the brood of tyrants, proud, disdainful, a budding tyrant yourself, to punish you for every misery my mother and sister have had to endure, for every luxury which you have enjoyed, I will kiss you on the lips and the cheeks and just between your white throat and chin and never as long as you live if you die this night or live to be an hundred will you be able to wash off those kisses showered upon you by one who hates and loathes you --a miserable peasant whom you despise and who in your sight is lower far than your dogs.' Shortly afterwards the Duc's private army arrive and dispatch the mob. Adet is seriously injured and seeks refuge from a local priest before fleeing Nantes and the death sentence which has been passed on him. Determined that someone must pay for the incident, the Duc de Kernogan ensures that Pierre's father is hanged for his son's crime. By the time Pierre finds out it is too late and he is driven to seek revenge against the Duc and his daughter. It's now 1793 and Adet is living in England under the alias of Martin-Roget. He has spent the intervening years educating himself and with the aid of an introductory letter, obtained by blackmailing the Bishop of Brest, has ingratiated himself into English society -- to the extent that he has gained the favour of the Duc de Kernogan (who is now living near Bath) and is Yvonne's favoured suitor. Needless to say, both Yvonne and her father are ignorant of Martin-Roget's true identity and are unaware that he is seeking revenge. With the help of Chauvelin, he plans to marry Yvonne and lure her and the Duc back to Nantes and to their death as ci-devants on the guillotine. Adet's plans suffer a setback when he discovers that, warned by Sir Percy that she is at risk from Martin-Roget, Yvonne has eloped with Lord Antony Dewhurst. The Duc, believing that Martin-Roget is a millionaire banker whose marriage to Yvonne would have resulted in substantial funds being given to the French royalist cause, is furious that his plans have been thwarted and refuses to recognise the marriage, which would not be legal in France due to Yvonne's age. Martin-Roget convinces the Duc that he still wishes to marry Yvonne and soon persuade him to lure Yvonne away from Lord Tony. He then kidnaps her and the three set off for France. Lord Tony must seek the help of The Scarlet Pimpernel to save his wife. (wikipedia.org) Lord Tony's Wife Details Date : Published April 11th 2014 by Start Classics (first published 1917) ISBN : Author : Emmuska Orczy Format : Kindle Edition 137 pages Genre : Classics, Historical, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Romance Download Lord Tony's Wife ...pdf PDF File: Lord Tony's Wife... 2 Read and Download Ebook Lord Tony's Wife... Read Online Lord Tony's Wife ...pdf Download and Read Free Online Lord Tony's Wife Emmuska Orczy PDF File: Lord Tony's Wife... 3 Read and Download Ebook Lord Tony's Wife... From Reader Review Lord Tony's Wife for online ebook Judy Ann says Absolutely amazing! The rescue for Yvonne Dewhurst was quite unexpected. It thrilled and amazed me ho daring the plot for the rescue was, still am puzzled though, whether or not Sir Percy dropping "important" files was deliberate or not. It was absolutely addicting, I couldn't put the book down until I've finished reading it, but even then I just had to reread the whole story! :) Definitely, absolutely a must read! Lynne Stringer says I enjoyed this novel, although it was quite as much of a favourite as some of the others. It was nice to see Lord Tony get a girl and it was certainly entertaining. Although the ending, as I find with some of Orczy's novels, seems a bit beyond belief. Kim says Another rollicking adventure featuring high romance, bitter villains and the incredible talents of disguise and good-humored (but thorough) deception that are the essence of the inimitable Scarlet Pimpernel! It is highly predictable at this point that Percy will always win the day but the interest is always in exactly how he does it. Of course the uncanny ability to fully disguise himself and a high-born aristocrat's daughter wholly unschooled in disguise herself so that they escape the masses hounding them unscathed is ridiculous, yet satisfying. Love these fantastic, cozy reads that assure you of the existence of handsome, clever, funny, redoubtable do-gooders in this world. Krysta says Lord Tony’s Wife provides offers nothing new in the Scarlet Pimpernel series. By this point, readers know the way the Scarlet Pimpernel operates and can probably predict the events that will lead to a successful rescue. The lack of innovation disappointed me as many books follow this one, and I fear they will soon grow old if Orczy does not change her formula. Despite the predictability, however, I enjoyed the story both because it is, after all, about the Scarlet Pimpernel, and because it gives readers a closer look at some of the other characters—in particular Lord Anthony Dewhurst and his wife Yvonne. I found the focus on Yvonne particularly intriguing since adventure novels often concentrate on men. In consequence, the female perspective felt refreshing and unique. Despite the amount of time readers spend with Yvonne, however, her personality remains a little ambiguous. This stems largely from Orczy’s seeming reluctance to criticize the aristocracy. Our introduction to Yvonne portrays her as proud and stubborn, and specifically states that she has grown up learning to consider the peasants under her father as beasts. I found myself disliking her immediately. The next time we see her, however, she is suddenly charming and sweet. She has won over all those who know her. I can only attribute her change in manners to the people around her. We first see her interacting with peasants; we then see her interacting with aristocrats. PDF File: Lord Tony's Wife... 4 Read and Download Ebook Lord Tony's Wife... Orczy’s works undoubtedly have a slant that favors the aristocracy, but the insistence that readers accept Yvonne as a worthy heroine despite her contemptuous treatment of her social inferiors tested my ability to accept the black-and-white world of the Scarlet Pimpernel: a world where the servants of the Revolution are invariably ugly and depraved even in their private lives, and the nobility of England are invariably handsome and good. I thought back to the The Elusive Pimpernel where a character accuses the Pimpernel of not caring for the peasants who go to the guillotine—only the aristocrats. That book subsequently tried to prove that character wrong by having Sir Percy make an attempt to save a village from destruction, but the village people were only caught up in the machinations of the French government by accident; Sir Percy was obligated to save them simply because he was on the scene. I cannot think of any rescue planned out in advance for the benefit of anyone other than an aristocrat or a friend of one of the league members. But why should Sir Percy save the peasantry if they are truly as brutal and degenerate as the ones depicted by Orczy? Ordinarily I can accept the good-and-evil dichotomy of adventure novels as a device to highlight the qualities to which a man should aspire. However, in the Scarlet Pimpernel series, good and evil have been drawn largely across class lines. Occasional descriptions of the sufferings of the ordinary men and women crushed by poverty and hard living as a result of the Revolution do little to outweigh all the instances where the poor prove themselves desperate and mean. Until Orczy gives readers a kindhearted and honest peasant as a major player and until she shows the Scarlet Pimpernel specifically setting out to aid one of the poor, I will be left wondering about the series’ latent classism, and if Sir Percy is really less of a man than I had thought. Laura P. says Once again I was totally surprised by the scarlet pimpernel disguises...I wasn't expecting that! As usual, the story was highly enjoyable...one death did shock me a lot...I wasn't expecting it to happen so suddenly if at all.