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'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger' The French Terror is raging and few are safe from the threat of the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney a foppish Englishman decides to rescue imprisoned aristocrats before they can be executed. Showing great daring and aided by a band of brave comrades he disguises himself as the formidable Scarlet Pimpernel. But will his beautiful French wife Marguerite unwittingly prove his downfall? Baroness Orczy's swashbuckling 1905 novel set the standard for all future tales of masked avengers and was later adapted into a famous stage play and several film versions. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.
TITLE: The Scarlet Pimpernel
AUTHOR: Baroness Orczy
SKU: 9780241341339
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd
DATE PUBLISHED: 07/06/2018
PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom
PAGES: 288
BINDING: Paperback / softback
LANGUAGE: English
DIMENSIONS: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
WEIGHT: 213 gr