The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Stories For Everyone

Author: Baroness Orczy

Narrator: Cyril Taylor-Carr, The Cliff

Unabridged: 7 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/31/2022


Synopsis

“We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere"

“It was long past midnight when at last Marguerite retired to rest"

“Money and titles may be hereditary,” she would say, “but brains are not.”

The story is set during the Reign of Terror following the French Revolution. The title is the nom de guerre of its hero and protagonist, a chivalrous Englishman who rescues aristocrats before they are sent to the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life: apparently nothing more than a wealthy fop but in reality a formidable swordsman and a quick-thinking escape artist. The band of gentlemen who assist him are the only ones who know his secret identity. He is known by his symbol, a simple flower, the scarlet pimpernel. Opening at the New Theatre in London's West End on January 5, 1905, the play became a favorite of British audiences, eventually playing more than 2,000 performances.

Baroness Emma Orczy, usually known as Baroness Orczy or to her family and friends as Emmuska Orczy, was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright.

A true audiobook treasure!

About Baroness Orczy

Baroness Orczy was the daughter of a musician. Educated in Paris and Brussels, she then studied art in London, where she exhibited some of her work at the Royal Academy. THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL was the first success in her long writing career which encompassed both plays and novels.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne on July 15, 2023

Here's my new and improved title for this book... The Scarlet Pimpernel: A Classic That Doesn't Suck Sweaty Balls. I can't usually make it through classic literature. Does this make me a bad person? I think not. There are manymanymany other things I do on a daily basis that make me a bad person, b......more

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on January 11, 2022

I've always had a thing for books that use the Scarlet Pimpernel trope: the intelligent, capable person who hides behind a mask of inanity. So Emma Orczy gets extra points from me for popularizing this secret identity plot device in her 1905 book The Scarlet Pimpernel. It's 1792, the early days of th......more

Goodreads review by Henry on July 15, 2024

When the guillotine dropped quickly, remorselessly and often, there arose a mysterious Englishman, who crossed the channel, to rescue the French Aristocrats ( mostly innocent victims), he called himself, "The Scarlet Pimpernel" . Named after a modest, British flower, this person organized a band of......more