Authors: Baroness Orczy,
ISBN-13: 9781606641095, ISBN-10: 1606641093
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Aegypan
Date Published: July 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Anne Perry, the Edgar Award–winning author of more than thirty novels, is best known for her two Victorian mystery series. Her recent books include Death of a Stranger, The Whitechapel Conspiracy, and Funeral in Blue. She lives in Scotland.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
The first and most successful in the Baroness’s series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel “has almost reached its first centenary, and it is as vivid and appealing as ever because the plotting is perfect. It is a classic example of how to construct, pace, and conclude a plot. . . . To rise on the crest of laughter without capsizing, to survive being written, rewritten, and reinterpreted by each generation, is the mark of a plot that is timeless and universal, even though it happens to be set in England and France of 1792.”
From the Trade Paperback edition.
1 | Paris: September, 1792 | 1 |
2 | Dover: "The Fisherman's Rest" | 11 |
3 | The Refugees | 21 |
4 | The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel | 31 |
5 | Marguerite | 39 |
6 | An Exquisite of '92 | 45 |
7 | The Secret Orchard | 57 |
8 | The Accredited Agent | 65 |
9 | The Outrage | 77 |
10 | In the Opera Box | 85 |
11 | Lord Grenville's Ball | 101 |
12 | The Scrap of Paper | 109 |
13 | Either--Or? | 119 |
14 | One O'clock Precisely! | 123 |
15 | Doubt | 133 |
16 | Richmond | 139 |
17 | Farewell | 155 |
18 | The Mysterious Device | 163 |
19 | The Scarlet Pimpernel | 169 |
20 | The Friend | 179 |
21 | Suspense | 187 |
22 | Calais | 197 |
23 | Hope | 209 |
24 | The Death-trap | 217 |
25 | The Eagle and the Fox | 225 |
26 | The Jew | 235 |
27 | On the Track | 245 |
28 | The Pere Blanchard's Hut | 253 |
29 | Trapped | 263 |
30 | The Schooner | 269 |
31 | The Escape | 283 |