The Scarlet PimpernelThe 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.” |
Contents
September 1792 | 1 |
The Fishermans Rest | 11 |
The Refugees | 22 |
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel | 31 |
Marguerite | 40 |
An Exquisite of 92 | 47 |
The Secret Orchard | 58 |
The Accredited Agent | 65 |
Farewell | 156 |
The Mysterious Device | 165 |
The Scarlet Pimpernel | 170 |
The Friend | 181 |
Suspense | 189 |
Calais | 199 |
Hope | 210 |
The DeathTrap | 218 |
The Outrage | 78 |
In the Opera Box | 86 |
Lord Grenvilles Ball | 103 |
The Scrap of Paper | 111 |
Either Or? | 121 |
One oclock Precisely | 124 |
Doubt | 133 |
Richmond | 140 |
The Eagle and the Fox | 226 |
The Jew | 236 |
On the Track | 247 |
The Père Blanchards Hut | 256 |
Trapped | 267 |
The Schooner | 273 |
The Escape | 287 |
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