The Scarlet Pimpernel (Dodo Press)
Emmuska Orczy
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The Scarlet Pimpernel (Dodo Press)
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When Baroness Emmuska Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905), little did she know she was creating the super hero genre. Who is the elusive and mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel? A master of clever disguises, stealth and elegant escapes -- skills that he uses to rescue doomed French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. His signature -- a tiny scarlet flower. The Pimpernel's true identity is unknown except to a small group of co-conspirators who work with him and together comprise the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Not even his wife, the beautiful Lady Marguerite Blakeney, knows that the man she is married to, an effete fop and dull-witted British dandy Sir Percy Blakeney, is a secret hero who risks his life on a daily basis in order to save countless others. A vibrant adventure awaits the reader -- heart-pounding narrow escapes, clever repartee and dashing wit, true love thwarted and redeemed, a relentless agent of the French Republican Government who makes it his personal goal to capture and destroy the Scarlet Pimpernel, and of course Percy's immortal "bon mot" that makes the social rounds in England and France: "We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? -- Is he in hell? That demmed, elusive Pimpernel." Book One of "The Scarlet Pimpernel Series"

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THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
CHAPTER I PARIS: SEPTEMBER, 1792
CHAPTER II DOVER: "THE FISHERMAN'S REST"
CHAPTER III THE REFUGEES
CHAPTER IV THE LEAGUE OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
CHAPTER V MARGUERITE
CHAPTER VI AN EXQUISITE OF '92
CHAPTER VII THE SECRET ORCHARD
CHAPTER VIII THE ACCREDITED AGENT
CHAPTER IX THE OUTRAGE
CHAPTER X IN THE OPERA BOX
CHAPTER XI LORD GRENVILLE'S BALL
CHAPTER XII THE SCRAP OF PAPER
CHAPTER XIII EITHER—OR?
CHAPTER XIV ONE O'CLOCK PRECISELY!
CHAPTER XV DOUBT
CHAPTER XVI RICHMOND
CHAPTER XVII FAREWELL
CHAPTER XVIII THE MYSTERIOUS DEVICE
CHAPTER XIX THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
CHAPTER XX THE FRIEND
CHAPTER XXI SUSPENSE
CHAPTER XXII CALAIS
CHAPTER XXIII HOPE
CHAPTER XXIV THE DEATH-TRAP
CHAPTER XXV THE EAGLE AND THE FOX
CHAPTER XXVI THE JEW
CHAPTER XXVII ON THE TRACK
CHAPTER XXVIII THE PERE BLANCHARD'S HUT
CHAPTER XXIX TRAPPED
CHAPTER XXX THE SCHOONER
CHAPTER XXXI THE ESCAPE
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