The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
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The Scarlet Pimpernel

Author: Baroness Orczy

Narrator: Michael Ward

Unabridged: 9 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/19/2023


Synopsis

"They seek him here... they seek him there..."

It is the bloody height of the French Revolution. Men, women and children are put to death under the blade of the remorseless Guillotine, all to feed a baying mobs lust for blood and murder. Their only hope of salvation comes from a band of 20 brave men from across the channel. Noble daredevils who seek to snatch Madame Guillotine's prey from her clutches, all in the name of sport and excitement.

Twenty men; nineteen to obey, and one to command.

And that one, hated and hunted by the French Republic, known throughout all of Europe as the most daring, the most cunning member of that band. Identified only by his tell-tale signature:

The Scarlet Pimpernel!

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