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