Scarlet Pimpernel

Name: Scarlet Pimpernel
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ISBN: 9780553214024

ISBN-10: 0553214020

ISBN-13: 9780553214024

Edition: N/A

Authors: Emmuska Orczy, Orczy Emmuska

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The first and most successful in the Baroness’s series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel “has almost reached its first centenary, and it is as vivid and appealing as ever because the plotting is perfect. It is a classic example of how to construct, pace, and conclude a plot. . . . To rise on the crest of laughter without capsizing, to survive being written, rewritten, and reinterpreted by each generation, is the mark of a plot that is timeless and universal,…

Book details

List price: $5.95
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 4.33" wide x 6.93" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English




Paris: September, 1792



Dover: "The Fisherman's Rest"



The Refugees



The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel



Marguerite



An Exquisite of '92



The Secret Orchard



The Accredited Agent



The Outrage



In the Opera Box



Lord Grenville's Ball



The Scrap of Paper



Either--Or?



One O'clock Precisely!



Doubt



Richmond



Farewell



The Mysterious Device



The Scarlet Pimpernel



The Friend



Suspense



Calais



Hope



The Death-Trap



The Eagle and the Fox



The Jew



On the Track



The Pere Blanchard's Hut



Trapped



The Schooner



The Escape