The cover page is adapted from The Laughing Cavalier, a painting completed in 1624 by Frans Hals. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Halswww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
The Laughing Cavalier
章节(47)
- An Apology 0:00
- The Prologue 6:04
- I: New Year’s Eve 41:16
- II: The Fracas by the Postern Gate 56:44
- III: An Interlude 1:19:36
- IV: Watch-Night 1:35:20
- V: Brother and Sister 2:02:43
- VI: The Counsels of Prudence 2:20:40
- VII: Three Philosophers and Their Friends 2:29:58
- VIII: The Lodgings Which Were Paid For 3:04:47
- IX: The Painter of Pictures 3:25:11
- X: The Laughing Cavalier 3:35:34
- XI: The Bargain 3:59:22
- XII: The Portrait 4:10:11
- XIII: The Spanish Wench 4:24:49
- XIV: After Evensong 4:44:02
- XV: The Halt at Bennebrock 4:55:20
- XVI: Leyden 5:04:20
- XVII: An Understanding 5:18:38
- XVIII: The Start 5:40:46
- XIX: In the Kingdom of the Night 5:46:46
- XX: Back Again in Haarlem 5:54:30
- XXI: A Grief-Stricken Father 6:06:04
- XXII: A Double Pledge 6:16:14
- XXIII: A Spy from the Camp 6:36:17
- XXIV: The Birth of Hate 6:53:33
- XXV: An Arrant Knave 7:25:01
- XXVI: Back to Houdekerk 7:43:14
- XXVII: Thence to Rotterdam 7:58:19
- XXVIII: Check 8:12:32
- XXIX: Check Again 8:26:22
- XXX: A Nocturne 8:37:19
- XXXI: The Molens 9:19:39
- XXXII: A Run Through the Night 9:42:34
- XXXIII: The Captive Lion 9:58:04
- XXXIV: Protestations 10:15:17
- XXXV: The Witness for the Defence 10:34:22
- XXXVI: Brother Philosophers 11:08:19
- XXXVII: Dawn 11:29:32
- XXXVIII: The Hour 11:43:59
- XXXIX: “Sauve Qui Peut” 11:54:46
- XL: The Loser Pays 12:09:39
- XLI: “Vengeance Is Mine” 12:36:28
- XLII: The Fight in the Doorway 12:45:42
- XLIII: Leyden Once More 13:27:24
- XLIV: Blake of Blakeney 13:46:43
- XLV: The End 13:57:04
A young woman in 17th century Holland inadvertently overhears the details of a plot to kill a political figure. The principal figures in the plot, one of whom is her brother and another her former lover, hire an insolent English mercenary to kidnap her to get her out of the way until their deeds are done. From there very little goes according to plan.
For her fifth published novel in the series, Baroness Orczy uses Franz Hals’ famous painting titled The Laughing Cavalier to build an elaborate backstory for the ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel.