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A free Timeless Best-Seller:THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
by Baroness Orczy(1905)
The Scarlet Pimpernel is the very first novel I had read four and a half decades back! Recently, I reread this novel and enjoyed it as much as I did when I had read it for the first time!
A free Timeless Best-Seller:THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
by Baroness Orczy(1905)
The Scarlet Pimpernel is the very first novel I had read four and a half decades back! Recently, I reread this novel and enjoyed it as much as I did when I had read it for the first time!
Here is a post about my Reading Journey which started with The Scarlet Pimpernel.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel is set in 1792, during the early stages of the French Revolution. Marguerite St. Just, a beautiful French actress, is the wife of wealthy English fop Sir Percy Blakeney, a baronet.The "League of the Scarlet Pimpernel", a secret society of twenty English aristocrats, "one to command, and nineteen to obey", is engaged in rescuing their French counterparts from the daily executions.Their leader, the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel, takes his nickname from the drawing of a small red flower with which he signs his messages. Despite being the talk of London society, only his followers and possibly the Prince of Wales know the Pimpernel's true identity
About the Author - Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865-1947)
Hungarian-British writer. Baroness Emmuska Orczy was a novelist and artist, who wrote crime stories and then created "The Scarlet Pimpernel," which is perhaps her most memorable claim-to-fame.
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