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Pimpernel and Rosemary

by Emmuska Orczy

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1924
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  1. prologue

    22:35

  2. Chapters 1-3

    34:52

  3. Chapters 4-6

    41:16

  4. Chapters 7-9

    48:18

  5. Chapters 10-12

    46:44

  6. Chapters 13-14

    54:06

  7. Chapters 15-17

    50:20

  8. Chapters 18-20

    45:15

  9. Chapters 21-24

    53:12

  10. Chapters 25-27

    46:18

  11. Chapters 28-30

    42:44

  12. Chapters 31-33

    42:48

  13. Chapters 34-36

    41:56

  14. Chapters 37-39

    47:54

  15. Chapters 40-42

    29:34

  16. Chapters 43-45

    46:57

  17. Chapters 46-48

    21:04

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Pimpernel and Rosemary was published in 1924 and is the odd one out in the Scarlet Pimpernel sequence. The setting is no longer Revolutionary France. The novel takes place in early 1920s Hungary in the aftermath of the First World War, with a modern descendant of Sir Percy Blakeney, also nicknamed Pimpernel, operating on behalf of British intelligence and Hungarian aristocrats targeted by the post-war Communist regime under Béla Kun.

The book is essentially Orczy's attempt to update her successful franchise for a contemporary setting. The mechanism is recognizable. A glamorous noble background, a secret identity, daring rescues across an unstable post-war political landscape, a romantic subplot with an Englishwoman named Rosemary. The contemporary setting jars some readers who came to the series for its eighteenth-century atmosphere, and the political content is unmistakably colored by Orczy's own conservatism. As an experiment in extending the Pimpernel concept across a longer historical timeline, the book is genuinely interesting. As a standalone novel it has not aged especially well.

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Emmuska Orczy

Baroness Emma Magdalena Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci, usually known as Baroness Orczy, was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright.

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Book facts

First published
1924
Reading time
About 8 hours
Pages
298
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
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