num_pages: 264
description: When Baroness Emmuska Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905), little did she know she was creating the super hero genre. Who is the elusive and mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel? A master of clever disguises, stealth and elegant escapes -- skills that he uses to rescue doomed French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. His signature -- a tiny scarlet flower. The Pimpernel's true identity is unknown except to a small group of co-conspirators who work with him and together comprise the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Not even his wife, the beautiful Lady Marguerite Blakeney, knows that the man she is married to, an effete fop and dull-witted British dandy Sir Percy Blakeney, is a secret hero who risks his life on a daily basis in order to save countless others. A vibrant adventure awaits the reader -- heart-pounding narrow escapes, clever repartee and dashing wit, true love thwarted and redeemed, a relentless agent of the French Republican Government who makes it his personal goal to capture and destroy the Scarlet Pimpernel, and of course Percy's immortal "bon mot" that makes the social rounds in England and "We seek him here, we seek him there,Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.Is he in heaven? -- Is he in hell?That demmed, elusive Pimpernel." Book One of "The Scarlet Pimpernel Series"
language: English
title: The Scarlet Pimpernel
titlecomplete: The Scarlet Pimpernel
characters: Suzanne de Tournay, George IV of Great Britain and Ireland, Percy Blakeney, Marguerite Blakeney, Armand Chauvelin, Armand St. Just, Sir Andrew Ffoulkes
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, Adventure, Classic Literature, France, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Romance
ratings_count: 133489
places: London, England, Dover, Kent, England, France, England, Paris
series: The Scarlet Pimpernel (publication order), The Scarlet Pimpernel (chronological order)
publisher: Norilana Books