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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."
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Classic Literature, Adventure and adventurers, Open Library Staff Picks, Juvenile fiction, British, Fiction, Text-books for foreigners, English language, Historical Fiction, Sir Blakeney, Percy (Fictitious character), Refugees, Nobility, History, France, history, revolution, 1789-1799, fiction, France, fiction, Blakeney, percy, sir (fictitious character), fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Great britain, fiction, Children's fiction, France, history, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Large type books, Adventure fiction, France, 1789-1799, Revolution, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, action & adventure, England, fiction, Fiction, general, Adventure, Childrens fiction, Romans, nouvelles, Histoire, Britanniques, English language, textbooks for foreign speakers, Readers, Revolution (France : 1789-1799) fast (OCoLC)fst01354514People
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
2011, Dalmatian Press, LLC, Dalmatian Press Classics
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2005, Signet Classic
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The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) is a play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution.
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