description: Armed with only his wits and his cunning, one man recklessly defies the French revolutionaries and rescues scores of innocent men, women, and children from the deadly guillotine. His friends and foes know him only as the Scarlet Pimpernel. But the ruthless French agent Chauvelin is sworn to discover his identity and to hunt him down.
language: English
title: The Scarlet Pimpernel
titlecomplete: The Scarlet Pimpernel
characters: Percy Blakeney, Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, George IV of Great Britain and Ireland, Armand Chauvelin, Armand St. Just, Marguerite Blakeney, Suzanne de Tournay
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Classics, France, Historical, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Adventure
ratings_count: 133485
places: Dover, Kent, England, England, France, London, England, Paris
series: The Scarlet Pimpernel (chronological order), The Scarlet Pimpernel (publication order)
publisher: Signet Classics