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The Scarlet Pimpernel

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781473697195

Price: £9.99

ON SALE: 18th October 2018

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Classic Fiction (pre C 1945)

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Baroness Orczy’s classic tale of adventure during the French Revolution. Also available as an unabridged audiobook, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt.

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 note.

Determined to stop them, ruthless spymaster Chauvelin travels to England and embarks on a quest to uncover the identity of their leader, forcing the Scarlet Pimpernel and his men to summon all their courage and wits to evade capture and stay alive.

PRAISE FOR THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL

“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

“The Baroness Orczy invented the “masked avenger” genre of fiction – the swashbuckling hero of dual identity. Her progeny include Zorro, Superman, The Lone Ranger and many others.” – Audiofile Magazine

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