The Scarlet Pimpernel
$22.28
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
30 October 2018
Summary
Baroness Orczy’s classic tale of adventure during the French Revolution.
Paris, 1792. The Terror has begun. Every day, scores of the French nobility are delivered to the guillotine. Trapped in the capital, they have no way of escape.
But rumours abound of a league of young English gentlemen who are risking their lives to spirit French aristocrats away to safety across the Channel. Led by a man known only as the ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’, they leave no trace behind them save a single…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473697195 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473697190 |
| Author: | Baroness Orczy |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 30 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 164mm x 22mm |
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Anyone who feels that their outward manner is but a travesty of their inner self can hardly fail to respond to THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL - Independent
Anyone who feels that their outward manner is but a travesty of their inner self can hardly fail to respond to THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL - Independent
About The Author
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.
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