The Scarlet Pimpernel

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel
    By Emmuska Orczy

    ... in fact, a revision of two earlier stories: 'The Red Carnation' (Pearson's Magazine, June 1898) and 'The Sign of the Shamrock' (serialized in Pearson's new newspaper, the Daily Express, in 1903).9 These are no slight resemblances: ...

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel
    By Baroness Orczy

    "Vaguely she began to wonder ... which of these worldly men round her was the mysterious 'Scarlet Pimpernel, ' who held the threads of such daring plots, and the fate of valuable lives in his hands.

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel
    By Baroness Emmuska Orczy

    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 ...

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel
    By Emma Orczy

    The edition places the book The Scarlet Pimpernel within the context of the elite and popular literature of the turn of the century.

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel
    By Baroness Orczy

    In 1792, during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, an English aristocrat known to be an ineffectual fop is actually a master of disguises who, with a small band of dedicated friends, undertakes dangerous missions to save members of ...

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel
    By Baroness Orczy

    PRAISE FOR THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL "Anyone who feels that their outward manner is but a travesty of their inner self can hardly fail to respond to THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL" - Independent "The Baroness Orczy invented the "masked avenger" genre of ...

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel: The New Musical Adventure : Vocal Selections
    By Frank Wildhorn, Nan Knighton

    (Vocal Selections). 13 vocal selections from the Frank Wildhorn musical. The songs are: Believe * Into the Fire * Falcon in the Dive * When I Look at You *...

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel
    By Emmuska Orczy

    The Scarlet Pimpernel is the original masked hero adventure story. During the French Revolution a secret society of English gentlemen is formed by the enigmatic Scarlet Pimpernel, to rescue their fellow French nobility.

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel
    By Baroness Orczy

    An irresistible blend of romance, intrigue, and suspense, this timeless historical adventure recalls the Reign of Terror following the French Revolution, when ruthless mobs ruled the streets of Paris and hundreds of royals were condemned to ...