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Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi (23 September 1865 - 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist, playwright and artist of noble origin. She is most known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. This is one of her novels.

Cientifico viajero y buen narrador, Wilson alterna la descripcion de diversos ambitos de la naturaleza con reflexiones sobre el origen comun de la ciencia y la poesia, para hablarnos de la organizacion de las hormigas, de la presencia de la serpiente en las ciencias y las humanidades, de la belleza del ave del paraiso o de la inteligencia de los cerdos. Todo esto en nombre del amor a la vida y a la naturaleza.

Lucas Corso is a bibliophilic mercenary in the middle to two searches. He needs to prove if a manuscript of The Three Musketeers is genuine. He must also find the solution to the enigma of a diabolic book, burned with the printer in 1667, and of which only two other copies are known. The mystery leads him from the Holy Office to books condemned by the Vatican, from dusty old bookstores to the most select libraries owned by important international collectors.

A retelling of the events of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.