The Scarlet Pimpernel (Unabridged Classics)
by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1403739013 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1403739013 Global Overview for this book
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Another I found for the British/EU author box. Baroness Orczy was born in Hungary but settled in London.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
The British/EU box is finaly starting out. I hope all find a new author or a book they enjoy! The US Mail is not as much fun as a plane ride or a horse but the books will enjoy the ride.
I remember reading this book back in high school. I can't remember the details, so I might keep this book to read again :)
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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 a... more »lmost 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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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 a... more »lmost 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.”
