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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100451527623

ISBN-139780451527622

eBay Product ID (ePID)1688817

Product Key Features

Book TitleScarlet Pimpernel

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

TopicClassics, Thrillers / Espionage, Romance / Historical / General, Literary, Historical

GenreFiction

AuthorBaroness Orczy

FormatMass Market

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight5.2 Oz

Item Length7 in

Item Width4.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"Arguably the best adventure story ever published and certainly the most influential that appeared during the early decades of the twentieth century."- Gary Hoppenstand, "Arguably the best adventure story ever published and certainly the most influential that appeared during the early decades of the twentieth century."--Gary Hoppenstand

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Grade ToUP

Dewey Decimal823.912

Edition DescriptionAnniversary

SynopsisA timeless novel of adventure, intrigue, and romance is sparked by one man's defiance in the face of authority... The year is 1792. The French Revolution, driven to excess by its own triumph, has turned into a reign of terror. Daily, tumbrels bearing new victims to the guillotine roll over the cobbled streets of Paris.... Thus the stage is set for one of the most enthralling novels of historical adventure ever written. The mysterious figure known as the Scarlet Pimpernel, sworn to rescue helpless men, women, and children from their doom; his implacable foe, the French agent Chauvelin, relentlessly hunting him down; and lovely Marguerite Blakeney, a beautiful French exile married to an English lord and caught in a terrible conflict of loyalties--all play their parts in a suspenseful tale that ranges from the squalid slums of Paris to the aristocratic salons of London, from intrigue on a great English country estate to the final denouement on the cliffs of the French coast. There have been many imitations of The Scarlet Pimpernel , but none has ever equaled its superb sense of color and drama and its irresistible gift of wonderfully romantic escape. With an Introduction by Gary Hoppenstand, A timeless novel of adventure, intrigue, and romance is sparked by one man's defiance in the face of authority... The year is 1792. The French Revolution, driven to excess by its own triumph, has turned into a reign of terror. Daily, tumbrels bearing new victims to the guillotine roll over the cobbled streets of Paris.... Thus the stage is set for one of the most enthralling novels of historical adventure ever written. The mysterious figure known as the Scarlet Pimpernel, sworn to rescue helpless men, women, and children from their doom; his implacable foe, the French agent Chauvelin, relentlessly hunting him down; and lovely Marguerite Blakeney, a beautiful French exile married to an English lord and caught in a terrible conflict of loyalties-all play their parts in a suspenseful tale that ranges from the squalid slums of Paris to the aristocratic salons of London, from intrigue on a great English country estate to the final denouement on the cliffs of the French coast. There have been many imitations of The Scarlet Pimpernel , but none has ever equaled its superb sense of color and drama and its irresistible gift of wonderfully romantic escape. With an Introduction by Gary Hoppenstand