The Scarlet Pimpernel (Great Reads) - Hardcover

Orczy, Baroness

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9781403709882: The Scarlet Pimpernel (Great Reads)

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ISBN 10: 1403709882 ISBN 13: 9781403709882

Publisher: Dalmatian Press, 2004

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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP In 1792, during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, an English aristocrat known to be an ineffectual fop is actually a master of disguises who, with a small band of dedicated friends, undertakes dangerous missions to save members of the French nobility from the guillotine. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: ‚Ģ A concise introduction that gives readers important background information ‚Ģ A chronology of the author’s life and work ‚Ģ A timeline of significant events that provides the book’s historical context ‚Ģ An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations ‚Ģ Detailed explanatory notes ‚Ģ Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work ‚Ģ Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction ‚Ģ A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader’s experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world’s finest books to their full potential. SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON

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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."

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