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The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title (co-authored with her husband Montague Barstow) enjoyed a long run in London, having opened in Nottingham in 1903.
The Scarlet Pimpernel, romantic novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, produced as a play in 1903 and published in book form in 1905. The novel’s protagonist, Sir Percy Blakeney, ostensibly a foppish English aristocrat, is secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel, a swashbuckling hero and elusive master of disguise who rescues French aristocrats and smuggles ...
Nov 9, 1982 · The Scarlet Pimpernel: Directed by Clive Donner. With Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian McKellen, James Villiers. Paris, 1792: After France becomes a republic, aristocrats are guillotined. The English Sir Percy tries to save as many as he can as The Scarlet Pimpernel in disguises.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Summary. Next. Chapter 1. Literary devices: Genre. Mood. Setting. Style. Tone. View all. It is 1792 in France, and the French Revolution is in full swing.
The Scarlet Pimpernel: Directed by Harold Young. With Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce. A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.
A novel set in France and England in 1792; published in 1905. SYNOPSIS. An English aristocrat risks his life to rescue members of the French upper class from being killed during the French Revolution. Events in History at the Time the Novel Takes Place. The Novel in Focus. Events in History at the Time the Novel Was Written. For More Information.
135,508 ratings7,780 reviews. Armed with only his wits and his cunning, one man recklessly defies the French revolutionaries and rescues scores of innocent men, women, and children from the deadly guillotine. His friends and foes know him only as the Scarlet Pimpernel.
