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In this, the sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, French agent and chief spy-catcher Chauvelin is as crafty as ever, but Sir Percy Blakeney is more than a match for his arch-enemy. Meanwhile the beautiful Marguerite remains wholly devoted to Sir Percy, her husband. Cue more swashbuckling... Read Full Overview

The seventh book time-wise in the Scarlet Pimpernel series, this was actually the 3rd one written (first published in 1908). The story, like most of the Scarlet Pimpernel series, is set in Europe during the French Revolution. In The Elusive Pimpernel, Citizen Chauvelin is given... Read Full Overview

It is September 1793 and French Agent and chief spy-catcher Chauvelin is determined to get his revenge for the previous humiliations dished out to him at the hands of the Scarlet Pimpernel.Chauvelin travels to England as an official representative of the French government tasked... Read Full Overview

Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865 - 1947) was a Hungarian-born British author and artist best known for writing the Scarlet Pimpernel series, a historical fiction that takes place during the French Revolution. Orczy was also a prolific writer of detective fiction and is still one... Read Full Overview

In this, the sequel to 'The Scarlet Pimpernel', French agent and chief spy-catcher Chauvelin is as crafty as ever, but Sir Percy Blakeney is more than a match for his arch-enemy. Meanwhile the beautiful Marguerite remains wholly devoted to Sir Percy, her husband. Cue more swashbuckling... Read Full Overview

Emmuska Orczy was a Hungarian-born British author and artist. Orczy was born of nobility and would go onto become one of the greatest authors of the 20th century. Orczy's best known works are her classic novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. The Elusive Pimpernel, published... Read Full Overview

"We seek him here! we seek him there!

Those Frenchies seek him everywhere!

Is he in heaven? Is he in hell?

That demmed elusive Pimpernel?"

Sir Percy thought he left his enemy vanquished, humiliated, and debased in Calais.

Oh, how foolish he was.

Now... Read Full Overview

"We seek him here! we seek him there!

Those Frenchies seek him everywhere!

Is he in heaven? Is he in hell?

That demmed elusive Pimpernel?"

Sir Percy thought he left his enemy vanquished, humiliated, and debased in Calais.

Oh, how foolish he was.

Now... Read Full Overview

Spy-catcher Chauvelin travels to England to find Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and take him back to France where he'll be put to death. With help from a struggling actress, Chauvelin attempts to bring the hero to justice.

Sir Percy Blakeney and his... Read Full Overview

Spy-catcher Chauvelin travels to England to find Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and take him back to France where he'll be put to death. With help from a struggling actress, Chauvelin attempts to bring the hero to justice.

Sir Percy Blakeney and his... Read Full Overview

It is the early days of the French Republic, and Robespierre's revolutionaries find their wicked schemes repeatedly being thwarted. It appears that Sir Percy Blakeney--the cunning and heroic Pimpernel--is more than a match for them all. But Sir Percy's spy-catching archenemy,... Read Full Overview

The Elusive Pimpernel is a historical novel written by Baroness Orczy. The story is set in the 18th century during the French Revolution and follows the adventures of Sir Percy Blakeney, also known as the Scarlet Pimpernel. Sir Percy is a British aristocrat who leads a secret... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

The Elusive Pimpernel is a historical fiction novel written by Baroness Orczy. The story is set during the French Revolution and follows the adventures of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy Englishman who leads a secret double life as the Pimpernel, a daring and elusive rescuer of... Read Full Overview

The Elusive Pimpernel is a historical novel written by Baroness Orczy. The story is set during the French Revolution and follows the adventures of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy Englishman who leads a secret double life as the Scarlet Pimpernel, a daring and elusive hero who rescues... Read Full Overview

There was not even a reaction.On! ever on! in that wild, surging torrent; sowing the wind of anarchy, of terrorism, of lust of blood and hate, and reaping a hurricane of destruction and of horror.On! ever on! France, with Paris and all her children still rushes blindly, madly... Read Full Overview