The Scarlet Pimpernel
Series: Scarlet Pimpernel (1)
Publisher: Viking Press
Published: September 1989
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9789993029960
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.