The Scarlet Pimpernel, Emmuska Orczy
The Scarlet Pimpernel, Emmuska Orczy
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The Scarlet Pimpernel

Author: Emmuska Orczy

Narrator: A. J. Shuck

Unabridged: 9 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/02/2020

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

What would you do to save a loved one? Tell a lie? Risk your life? Send a stranger to the Guillotine?For Marguerite Blakeney, this question becomes all too real when she is given a cruel "Either-Or"On the one hand hangs the life of her beloved brother, Armand, and on the other, the life of an enigmatic hero, The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne

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

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

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