1992, ISBN: 0553214020

[EAN: 9780553214024], Neubuch, [PU: Bantam Books, New York], Mass Market Paperback. It is 1792 and France is in the grip of a seething, bloody revolution. Mobs roam the Paris streets hunt… Altro …

[EAN: 9780553214024], Neubuch, [PU: Bantam Books, New York], Mass Market Paperback. It is 1792 and France is in the grip of a seething, bloody revolution. Mobs roam the Paris streets hunting down royalists, barricades block any chance of escape, and every day hundreds die under the blade of Madame la Guillotine. But in the hearts of the condemned nobility there remains one last vestige of hope: rescue by the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel. Renowned for both his unparalleled bravery and his clever disguises, the Pimpernel's identity remains as much a mystery to his sworn enemy, the ruthless French agent Chauvelin, as to his devoted admirer, the beautiful Lady Marguerite Blakeney. First published in 1905, The Scarlet Pimpernel is an irresistible novel of love, gallantry, and swashbuckling adventure. 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." "From the Trade Paperback edition. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability., Books<

1992, ISBN: 9780553214024

Buch, Softcover, [PU: Bantam Books Inc], Bantam Books Inc, 1992