The Scarlet Pimpernel
Series: Scarlet Pimpernel (1)
Publisher: Signet Classics
Published: September 1, 1974
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780451517623
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.