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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Emmuska Orczy
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Baronness Orczy
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The Scarlet Pimpernel - Orczy, Emmuska ; Orczy, Baronness
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Synopsis "The Scarlet Pimpernel"
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic novel-an extremely entertaining part romance, part adventure, part spy thriller, and part superhero fiction. The Scarlet Pimpernel follows the adventures of Sir Percy Blakeney as he seeks to help French aristocrats escape the guillotine during the French Revolution. Since official English policy forbids this, Blakeney adopts a masked identity as the Scarlet Pimpernel to remain anonymous. The French, of course, detest this interference in their affairs and set out to trap and kill the Pimpernel at all costs. As part of his effort to deflect suspicion from himself, he plays the fool in everyday life and he does it well. His own wife considers him a useless fop... and that's where the story really gets interesting. Pimpernel's wife ends up following him into danger in an attempt to save him. This allows the most suspenseful section of the book to be told from Mrs. Blakeney's perspective. Her terror for her husband's fate is pure and adds to the tension considerably. If we saw it through the Pimpernel's eyes, it would doubtless be far more composed and nowhere near as suspenseful. Well worth buying, the Scarlet Pimpernel is funny, suspenseful, romantic, and generally quite a page-turner.
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The book is written in English.
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