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The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Book Overview: 

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. The book consists of eleven short stories about Sir Percy Blakeney’s exploits in rescuing various aristos and French citizens from the clutches of the guillotine. The stories are set in 1793 but appear in no particular order. They occasionally refer to events in other books in the series.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Soon the slender figure was swallowed up in the gloom as he strode back rapidly towards the city.

XII

Citizen Fouquier-Tinville had returned home from the Palais at a very late hour that same evening. His household in his simple lodgings in the Place Dauphine was already abed: his wife and the twins were asleep. He himself had sat down for a moment in the living-room, in dressing-gown and slippers, and with the late edition of the Moniteur in his hand, too tired to read.

It was half-past ten when there came a ring at the front door bell. Fouquier-Tinville, half expecting citizen Chauvelin to pay him a final visit, shuffled to the door and opened it.

A visitor, tall, well-dressed, exceedingly polite and urbane, requested a few minutes' conversation with citizen Fouquier-Tinville.

Before the Public Prosecutor had made up his mind whether to introduce such a late-comer into his rooms, . . . Read More

Community Reviews

I love how these books can be slightly long and yet read so well. This one is a collection of his adventures and I found it rather fun to guess all of the disguises (Although I was rarely correct). It is rather hard to say more without giving something away.

The League of The Scarlet Pimpernel is/was a great book. There's no denying it that. It's a fantastic collection of short stories that leave me baffled in much the same way as Sherlock Holmes, not to mention that it has the same "air" to it, insane enemies, daring escapes, just about everything that

It took me a lot longer to work through this one than it did the other ones. Mainly, I think, because I ran out of Librevox recordings done by Karen Savage (who is excellent) and the readers on this Librevox recording weren't all that great. It was done by several readers, and I just couldn't stand

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