The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy
"The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Orczy is a collection of short stories published in 1919. This sequel to "The Scarlet Pimpernel" follows Sir Percy Blakeney through eleven adventures set during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror in 1793. Each tale chronicles daring rescues of aristocrats and citizens from the guillotine's shadow, featuring desperate mothers searching for stolen children, trapped families facing massacres, and league members whose loyalty wavers under
pressure in Revolutionary Paris. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness, 1865-1947 |
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| Title | The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_League_of_the_Scarlet_Pimpernel |
| Credits | Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 78.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Historical fiction |
| Subject | France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Fiction |
| Subject | Adventure stories |
| Subject | British -- France -- Fiction |
| Subject | Blakeney, Percy, Sir (Fictitious character) -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 5805 |
| Release Date | Jun 1, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Mar 21, 2018 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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