The Scarlet Pimpernel — Baroness Orczy

The French Terror is raging and few are safe from the threat of the guillotine Sir Percy Blakeney a foppish Englishman decides to rescue imprisoned aristocrats before they can be executed Showing great daring and aided by a band of brave comrades he disguises himself as the formidable Scarlet Pimpernel But will his beautiful French wife Marguerite unwittingly prove his downfall Baroness Orczy s swashbuckling 1905 novel set the standard for all future tales of masked avengers and was later adapted into a famous stage play and several film versions

Vaguely she began to wonder which of these worldly men round her was the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel who held the threads of such daring plots and the fate of valuable lives in his hands In the early days of the bloody French Revolution fleeing aristocrats are being captured and sent to the guillotine But the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel along with his band of English gentlemen is outwitting the revolutionaries Known only by his calling card he arrives in disguise and smuggles the nobles out of danger to the safety of England But can he guard his true identity forever or will he give his life for his cause

A timeless novel of adventure intrigue and romance is sparked by one man s defiance in the face of authority The year is 1792 The French Revolution driven to excess by its own triumph has turned into a reign of terror Daily tumbrels bearing new victims to the guillotine roll over the cobbled streets of Paris Thus the stage is set for one of the most enthralling novels of historical adventure ever written The mysterious figure known as the Scarlet Pimpernel sworn to rescue helpless men women and children from their doom his implacable foe the French agent Chauvelin relentlessly hunting him down and lovely Marguerite Blakeney a beautiful French exile married to an English lord and caught in a terrible conflict of loyalties all play their parts in a suspenseful tale that ranges from the squalid slums of Paris to the aristocratic salons of London from intrigue on a great English country estate to the final denouement on the cliffs of the French coast There have been many imitations of The Scarlet Pimpernel but none has ever equaled its superb sense of color and drama and its irresistible gift of wonderfully romantic escape Yayınevi COLLINS CLASSICS Yazar BARONESS ORCZY Dil İNGİLİZCE Sayfa Sayısı 288 SAYFA Yıl 2021

A surging seething murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate The hour some little time before sunset and the place the West Barricade at the very spot where a decade later a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nations glory and his own vanity During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work all that France had boasted of in the past centuries of ancient names and blue blood had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity The carnage had only ceased at this late hour of the day because there were other more interesting sights for the people to witness a little while before the final closing of the barricades for the night

Vaguely she began to wonder which of these worldly men round her was the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel who held the threads of such daring plots and the fate of valuable lives in his hands In the early days of the bloody French Revolution fleeing aristocrats are being captured and sent to the guillotine But the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel along with his band of English gentlemen is outwitting the revolutionaries Known only by his calling card he arrives in disguise and smuggles the nobles out of danger to the safety of England But can he guard his true identity forever or will he give his life for his cause

Vaguely she began to wonder which of these worldly men round her was the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel who held the threads of such daring plots and the fate of valuable lives in his hands In the early days of the bloody French Revolution fleeing aristocrats are being captured and sent to the guillotine But the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel along with his band of English gentlemen is outwitting the revolutionaries Known only by his calling card he arrives in disguise and smuggles the nobles out of danger to the safety of England But can he guard his true identity forever or will he give his life for his cause