The Scarlet Pimpernel
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Coronet Books
Published: December 4, 1997
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780340707623
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Historical adventure
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.