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
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
Last Update Mar 21, 2018
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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