The Scarlet Pimpernel

By: Emmuska Orczy

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Paperback | 1 March 1992 | Edition Number 1

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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." From the Trade Paperback edition.

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"Arguably the best adventure story ever published and certainly the most influential that appeared during the early decades of the twentieth century."--Gary Hoppenstand

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Paris: September, 1792	p. 1
Dover: "The Fisherman's Rest"	p. 9
The Refugees	p. 19
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel	p. 27
Marguerite	p. 35
An Exquisite of '92	p. 41
The Secret Orchard	p. 51
The Accredited Agent	p. 58
The Outrage	p. 69
In the Opera Box	p. 76
Lord Grenville's Ball	p. 91
The Scrap of Paper	p. 98
Either--Or?	p. 107
One O'clock Precisely!	p. 110
Doubt	p. 118
Richmond	p. 124
Farewell	p. 138
The Mysterious Device	p. 146
The Scarlet Pimpernel	p. 151
The Friend	p. 161
Suspense	p. 168
Calais	p. 176
Hope	p. 186
The Death-Trap	p. 193
The Eagle and the Fox	p. 200
The Jew	p. 209
On the Track	p. 219
The Pere Blanchard's Hut	p. 227
Trapped	p. 236
The Schooner	p. 241
The Escape	p. 254
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