The Scarlet Pimpernel (Puffin Classics - the Essential Collection)
Series: Scarlet Pimpernel (1)
Publisher: Puffin
Published: March 1, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780140374544
First sentence: A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.