Scarlet Pimpernel

Name: Scarlet Pimpernel
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ISBN: 9780140374544

ISBN-10: 014037454X

ISBN-13: 9780140374544

Edition: 2nd (Abridged)

Authors: Baroness Orczy, Baroness Orczy

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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: $5.99
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date: 3/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.76" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English