The Scarlet Pimpernel
By: Baroness Orczy.
Series: Everyman's library children's classics
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Juvenile fiction.; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: In 1792, during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, an English aristocrat known to be an ineffectual fop is actually a master of disguises who, with a small band of dedicated friends, undertakes dangerous missions to save members of the French nobility from the guillotine.