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Title	:	The Scarlet Pimpernel (The Scarlet Pimpernel (publication order) #1)
Author	:	Emmuska Orczy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 182 pages
Published	:	February 28th 2005 by Quiet Vision Pub (first published 1905)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Magic. Fiction. Young Adult

The Scarlet Pimpernel (The Scarlet Pimpernel (publication order) #1) Paperback | Pages: 182 pages

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Here's my new and improved title for this book...
The Scarlet Pimpernel: A Classic That Doesn't Suck Sweaty Balls.



I can't usually make it through classic literature.
Does this make me a bad person?
I think not.
There are manymanymany other things I do on a daily basis that make me a bad person, but not being able to force myself to read (in my opinion) outdated and overrated books is not one of them.

There are other readers out there like me, I'm sure of it! And it's you guys that I'm talking to now.
Rejoice, fellow slackers! There is a classic that you can actually read!
Imagine it...
You're sitting on a bench engrossed in a book. The person next to you leans over and asks, "What are you reading?". You can finally plaster a smug-ass smile on your face and say, "Why, right now I'm thoroughly enjoying Orczy's classic, The Scarlet Pimpernel.".
See?! Doesn't that sound awesome!
And when someone asks you what you've recently read, you won't have to admit to the fact that you're deep into a series about an alien who falls in love with his human neighbor, your extensive comic book collection, or all of that erotica that's hidden neatly away on your Kindle!



Now is this book really a four star novel by my 'real-book' standards?
Fuck, no!
It's old as shit. The copy I got didn't even have anything on the cover.
You know it's old when it has got that black cover-thing going on.
The pages were creaky, it smelled weird, and I think there's a possibility I should have had it tested for mold before I brought it into my house.
But.
It's a readable book.
Go get it, and for a few blissful moments, you can pretend that you're an intellectual giant.

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Original Title:	The Scarlet Pimpernel
ISBN:	1576469239 (ISBN13: 9781576469231)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Scarlet Pimpernel (publication order) #1, The Scarlet Pimpernel (chronological order) #1
Characters:	Percy Blakeney, Marguerite Blakeney, George IV, George Augustus Frederick, Citizen Armand Chauvelin, Armand St. Just, Suzanne de Tournay, Sir Andrew Ffoulkes
Setting:	England France,1792 London, England …more Paris(France) Dover, Kent, England(United Kingdom) …less

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This is a beautiful book with a well written story line, a smooth flow and a good pace and an interesting set of characters. (view spoiler)[ The story is set up in the back drop of the Reign of Terror in France in the aftermath of French revolution; and the author creates a story of a fictitious small league of British aristocrats led by one named the "The Scarlet Pimpernel" who help smuggle the French royals and aristocrats in to the safety of England away from the hands of vengeful French

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orci, or Baroness Orczy as a pen name, was a Hungarian born-British novelist. She wrote the Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905 and her main protagonist- Sir Percy Blakeney, who is a wealthy noble fop of an Englishman but also a skilled swordsman and brave rescuer of French nobles from the Terror, is often looked at as the first hero with a "secret identity". Based on that intriguing concept and the fact this is one of those "classics"

Brother. You sound like a socialist. Killing innocent women and children because of their connection to the wealthy doesnt bother you? Does being well

If, like me, you watched the movie more times than you'd care to admit when you were growing up; or if, like me, you've read all of Georgette Heyer's Regency romances and then some, you'll love this book. It doesn't pretend to be anything extraordinary, it doesn't even offer a social commentary on the period in which it's set - written by an aristocrat who is clearly on the side of the aristocrats, it's easy to see where her sympathies lie. But it is a rollicking good ride, a fun adventure

★★★★★★★★★☆[9/10]Ah, classic. How I had always imagined that the classics are only for those who are born, brought up, spoon-fed in and potty-trained in English and how wrong was I to think that they are out of the reach of people like me who had only subnormal command over the English language. Among many other popular authors of the classic era, Emmuska Orczy was a name much bandied about for her magnum opus, "The Scarlet Pimpernel" , even during my school days. I can't quite pinpoint

When the guillotine dropped quickly, remorselessly, and often, there arose a mysterious Englishman, who crossed the channel, to rescue the French Aristocrats ( mostly innocent victims), he called himself, "The Scarlet Pimpernel" . Named after a modest, British flower, this person organized a band of twenty high-born men, he like the flower, was unpretentious . Their daring deeds thrilled the world, Antoine Fouquier-Tinville director of the French government, wants to capture these enemies.

Okay, I read this for exactly two reasons: one, I thought this book was on The List (it's not); and two, the Scarlet Pimpernel is the inspiration for the Bruce Wayne/Batman dichotomy and I am a giant dork. For a book about a secret team of English nobleman working to rescue French nobles from the scary revolutionists who want them dead, this is a surprisingly unexciting book. The pace is fast, and there's plenty of spying and blackmailing and races against time, but there isn't a single