num_pages: 267
description: 
  The new cover edition to this ISBN
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.With an Introduction by Gary Hoppenstand
language: English
title: The Scarlet Pimpernel
titlecomplete: The Scarlet Pimpernel (The Scarlet Pimpernel, #1)
characters: Suzanne de Tournay, Marguerite Blakeney, Armand Chauvelin, George IV of Great Britain and Ireland, Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, Armand St. Just, Percy Blakeney
genres: Fiction, Historical, France, Adventure, Mystery, Classic Literature, Romance, Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 133489
places: France, England, Paris, London, England, Dover, Kent, England
series: The Scarlet Pimpernel (publication order), The Scarlet Pimpernel (chronological order)
publisher: Signet