The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel [Kindle Edition]

Baroness Emmuska Orczy (Author)

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

About the Author

Baroness Emmuska Orczy was born in Hungary in 1865. She lived in Budapest, Brussels, Paris, Monte Carlo, and London, where she died in 1947. The author of many novels, she is best known for The Scarlet Pimpernel.

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 284 KB
• Publisher: Public Domain Books (June 1, 2004)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000JQUFN2
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (56 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,942 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)

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75 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars God Save the King!, August 11, 2007

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Joseph Boone (Irvine, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Scarlet Pimpernel (Enriched Classic) (Mass Market Paperback)

The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic novel, though it is hard to categorize. It is part romance, part adventure, part spy thriller, and part superhero fiction. All of these elements went into the pot and the resulting stew is extremely entertaining.

The book follows the adventures of Sir Percy Blakeney as he seeks to help French aristocrats escape the guillotine during the French Revolution. Since official English policy forbids this, Blakeney adopts a masked identity as the Scarlet Pimpernel to remain anonymous. The French, of course, detest this interference in their affairs and set out to trap and kill the Pimpernel at all costs. As part of his effort to deflect suspicion from himself, he plays the fool in every day life and he does it well. His own wife considers him a useless fop... and that's where the story really gets interesting.

I won't give away more of the plot, but she ends up following him into danger in an attempt to save him. This allows the most suspenseful section of the book to be told from Mrs. Blakeney's perspective. Her terror for her husband's fate is pure and adds to the tension considerably. If we saw it through the Pimpernel's eyes, it would doubtless be far more composed and nowhere near as suspenseful.

In closing, The Scarlet Pimpernel is well worth buying. It's laugh out loud funny, suspenseful, romantic, and generally quite a page-turner.

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Edition, June 25, 2005

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Musical Lover - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Scarlet Pimpernel (Great Reads) (Hardcover)

This is one of my favorite books. I love the story and was excited to finally own my own copy. This edition is really great because it is lightly annotated. There are one or two footnotes on just about every page, defining french terms or just uncommon words. This makes reading that much more enjoyable because one understands more.
If you enjoy the book, there is a musical with an amazing soundtrack by the same name.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel Review, July 10, 2007

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Nancy H. Smith - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Paperback)

Suspenseful and realistic, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel leaves the reader wanting more. It all seems so real. Could there really have been an Englishman who helped aristocrats escape out of Paris during the French Revolution? Each of the Scarlet Pimpernel's plans actually could have worked. Finding out the ingenious schemes the Scarlet Pimpernel used was my favorite part of the book. The plans the Scarlet Pimpernel used to get the aristocrats safely out of Paris included several disguises and even fake passports. I would recommend this book to people who enjoy short adventure stories. These stories include tricky English spies, determined French patriots, scared French aristocrats, and severe consequences.