The Scarlet Pimpernel: The League and the Guillotine
Baroness Orczy
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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An English fop with the finest lace in London leads a league that snatches aristocrats from the guillotine, and the Republic's cleverest agent is set on finding out who he is. Orczy's book was turned down by a dozen publishers; she and her husband staged it as a play first, it ran for four years, and the novel then sold in the millions — the first masked-hero double life in modern fiction, ancestor of every one since. A hundred plates of Gainsborough and Géricault trace the Revolution's reach from London drawing rooms to Napoleon's battlefields, the world the Pimpernel slips through in disguise.
An English fop with the finest lace in London leads a league that snatches aristocrats from the guillotine, and the Republic's cleverest agent is set on finding out who he is. Orczy's book was turned down by a dozen publishers; she and her husband staged it as a play first, it ran for four years,...
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Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865–1947) was a Hungarian-born British author who worked in London. She originated the character of the Scarlet Pimpernel, the protagonist of a series of historical adventure novels that includes The Scarlet Pimpernel, El Dorado, The Elusive Pimpernel, I Will Repay, and The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865–1947) was a Hungarian-born British author who worked in London. She originated the character of the Scarlet Pimpernel, the protagonist of a series of historical adventure novels that includes The Scarlet Pimpernel, El Dorado, The Elusive Pimpernel, I Will Repay, and T...
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