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The Scarlet Pimpernel

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Contributors:

By (Author) Baroness Orczy

ISBN:

9780140374544

Publisher:

Penguin Random House Australia

Imprint:

Puffin

Publication Date:

1st March 1997

Country:

Australia

Classifications

Readership:

Children

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Main Subject:
Dewey:

FIC

Physical Properties

Number of Pages:

336

Dimensions:

Width 129mm, Height 196mm, Spine 22mm

Weight:

278g

Description

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."

Reviews

Arguably the best adventure story ever published and certainly the most influential that appeared during the early decades of the twentieth century.Gary Hoppenstand

Author Bio

Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865-1947), an only child of Austro-Hungarian nobles, lived most of her life in London, where she built her reputation as an established novelist, playwright, and artist. Also a success on stage, her most famous novel, The Scarlet Pimpernel, spawned a series of books featuring its cast of characters.

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