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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Set during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, it follows a mysterious Englishman who rescues aristocrats from the guillotine.
"The Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy is a historical fiction novel. Set during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, it follows a mysterious Englishman who rescues aristocrats from the guillotine.
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A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation’s glory and his own vanity.
During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that France had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity. The carnage had only ceased at this late hour of the day because there were other more interesting sights for the people to witness, a little while before the final closing of the barricades for the night.
And so the crowd rushed away from the Place de la Grève and made for the various barricades in order to watch this interesting and amusing sight.
Contents
- 01Chapter I. Paris: September, 1792
- 02Chapter II. “The Fisherman’s Rest”
- 03Chapter III. The Refugees
- 04Chapter IV. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
- 05Chapter V. Marguerite
- 06Chapter VI. An Exquisite of ’92
- 07Chapter VII. The Secret Orchard
- 08Chapter VIII. The Accredited Agent
- 09Chapter IX. The Outrage
- 10Chapter X. In the Opera Box
- 11Chapter XI. Lord Grenville’s Ball
- 12Chapter XII. The Scrap of Paper
- 13Chapter XIII. Either—Or?
- 14Chapter XIV. One O’clock Precisely!
- 15Chapter XV. Doubt
- 16Chapter XVI. Richmond
- 17Chapter XVII. Farewell
- 18Chapter XVIII. The Mysterious Device
- 19Chapter XIX. The Scarlet Pimpernel
- 20Chapter XX. The Friend
- 21Chapter XXI. Suspense
- 22Chapter XXII. Calais
- 23Chapter XXIII. Hope
- 24Chapter XXIV. The Death-Trap
- 25Chapter XXV. The Eagle and the Fox
- 26Chapter XXVI. The Jew
- 27Chapter XXVII. On the Track
- 28Chapter XXVIII. The Père Blanchard’s Hut
- 29Chapter XXIX. Trapped
- 30Chapter XXX. The Schooner
- 31Chapter XXXI. The Escape
About this edition
- Author
- Baroness Emmuska Orczy
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 261 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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