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The Scarlet Pimpernel

By - Orczy, Emmuska Orczy
Floor - Floor 3
Published - Modern Library, New York, 2002
ISBN 10 - 0812966112
ISBN 13 - 9780812966114
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - France
Shelf No - 8
Call Number - 823.912 ORC
Physical Description - xviii, 271 pages ; 21 cm.
Book Information
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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