The Scarlet Pimpernel — Five Adventures by Baroness Orczy

The Scarlet Pimpernel — Five Adventures
by Baroness Orczy

Five complete books collected in one edition formatted for eReaders.

In France during the last decade of the Eighteenth-century, the Revolutions Reign of Terror imposes rule through daily executions at the guillotine. An English baron with a band of fellow aristocrats dedicate their efforts to save French nobles from their deaths. The disguised hero leaves his trademark after each rescue - a paper printed with a red flower, a “Scarlet Pimpernel.”

CONTENTS
1 THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
Period setting: September–October 1792
2 I WILL REPAY
Period setting: August–September 1793
3 THE ELUSIVE PIMPERNEL
Period setting: September–October 1793
4 EL DORADO — AN ADVENTURE OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
Period setting: January 1794
This book introduces several new characters to the Pimpernel series and features the Baron de Batz (a genuine historical figure.)
5 THE LEAGUE OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
Period setting: July 1793 (This book was published after the others although the story places it second in this series.)

About Author :

Baroness Emma Orczy [1865-1947] was born in Hungary. In 1880, the Orczy family moved to London. Emma attended Heatherleys School of Fine Art. There, she met Montague MacLean Barstow, a young illustrator. They married in 1894. She worked with her husband as a translator and an illustrator. In 1899, she started writing soon after the birth of her son. In 1903, she and her husband wrote a play whose protagonist, Sir Percy Blakeney—The Scarlet Pimpernel rescued French aristocrats from the French revolution. She published a novelization of the story. The play ran four years. Its success spurred enormous sales of the novel. She wrote more than a dozen other Pimpernel books of which the first, I Will Repay (1906), was the most popular. The last Pimpernel book was Mamzelle Guillotine (1940). She eventually purchased an estate in Monte Carlo from her books successes.

Reviews :

The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic novel, though it is hard to categorize. It is part romance, part adventure, part spy thriller, and part superhero fiction. All of these elements went into the pot and the resulting stew is extremely entertaining. -- Joseph Boone

Constant danger, wit, romance, and adventure befall the reader at every turn. -- A. Van Hecke

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