The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy

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English

Puffin
01 March 1997

Children's & Educational; Classic fiction (Children's&YA)

Series: Puffin Classics

The first and most successful in the Baroness's series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel ""has almost reached its first centenary, and it is as vivid and appealing as ever because the plotting is perfect. It is a classic example of how to construct, pace, and conclude a plot. . . . To rise on the crest of laughter without capsizing, to survive being written, rewritten, and reinterpreted by each generation, is the mark of a plot that is timeless and universal, even though it happens to be set in England and France of 1792.""

By: Baroness Orczy
Imprint: Puffin
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 278g
ISBN: 9780140374544
ISBN 10: 014037454X
Series: Puffin Classics
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 March 1997
Recommended Age: From 10 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , English as a second language , Children's (6-12)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865-1947), an only child of Austro-Hungarian nobles, lived most of her life in London, where she built her reputation as an established novelist, playwright, and artist. Also a success on stage, her most famous novel, The Scarlet Pimpernel, spawned a series of books featuring its cast of characters.

Reviews for The Scarlet Pimpernel

“Arguably the best adventure story ever published and certainly the most influential that appeared during the early decades of the twentieth century.”—Gary Hoppenstand