The Scarlet Pimpernel - Hardcover

Baroness Orczy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786240121 ISBN 13: 9780786240128

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2002

Synopsis

The year is 1792. The French Revolution, driven to excess by its own triumph, has turned into a reign of terror. Daily, tumbrels roll over the Paris cobblestones bearing new victims to Madame Guillotine. The stage is set for one of the most enthralling novels of historical adventure ever written. The mysterious figure known as the Scarlet Pimpernel is sworn to rescue helpless men, women, and children from their doom.

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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, even though it happens to be set in England and France of 1792."

Edition details

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0786240121
• ISBN 13: 9780786240128
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 435