The Scarlet Pimpernel (Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS) - Hardcover

Emmuska Orczy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 185715505X ISBN 13: 9781857155051

Publisher: Everymans Library, 1998

Synopsis

The exotically named Baroness Orczy was the daughter of a Hungarian aristocrat who came to London at the age of fifteen. first published in 1905, her historical novel The Scarlet Pimpernel became almost as famous as the French Revolution itself. It tells of the escapades of Sir Percy Blakeney, whose mission is to help the innocent victims of the Reign of Terror escape the guillotine.

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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."

About this edition

• Publisher: Everymans Library
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 185715505X
• ISBN 13: 9781857155051
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 299