The Scarlet Pimpernel

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Penguin Publishing Group, 1974 - Fiction - 248 pages
During the Reign of Terror, a British nobleman in disguise makes raid after daring raid into the heart of France to save aristocrats from the guillotine, leaving his calling card--the small, blood-red flower called the pimpernel--at each rescue.

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Contents

SEPTEMBER 1792
1
THE FISHERMANS REST
9
THE REFUGEES
18
Copyright

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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy,Emmuska Orczy
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About the author (1974)

Emmuska Orczy was born in Tarnaörs, Heves County, Hungary on September 23, 1865. She attended West London School of Art and Heatherley's School of Fine Art. Collaborating with her husband Henry Montague Barstow, she produced and illustrated a translated version of Old Hungarian Fairy Tales in 1895. Her first novel, The Emperor's Candlesticks, was published in 1899. Her other works include In Mary's Reign, The Scarlet Pimpernel, I Will Repay, Mam'zelle Guillotine, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, and The Nest of the Sparrowhawk. She died on November 12, 1947.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Scarlet Pimpernel
Signet Classics Series
AuthorsBaroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy, Emmuska Orczy
Editionreprint
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group, 1974
ISBN0451523156, 9780451523150
Length248 pages
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