The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy Paperback Book

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Author: Baroness Orczy

Narrator: Michael Page

Format: Unabridged-CD

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: May 2005

Genre: Fiction - Classics

Retail Price: $32.95

Discs: 7

Synopsis

Perhaps the most famous alias of all time, 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' hides the identity of a British nobleman who, masked by various disguises, leads a band of young men to undermine the Reign of Terror after the French Revolution. The Scarlet Pimpernel makes daring raid after daring raid into the heart of France to save aristocrats condemned to the guillotine. At each rescue, he leaves his calling card: a small, blood-red flower - a pimpernel - mocking the power of Robespierre and his Committee of Public Safety. Having been told that his own wife was an informer who delivered an aristocrat into the hands of the Committee, the Scarlet Pimpernel must keep his identity and work a secret while he struggles against the love he feels for her. Until the day her own brother is taken prisoner...

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