The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
By 1922 Baroness Orczy had been writing about Sir Percy Blakeney for nearly two decades, and this late entry finds her hero at his most cornered. The year is 1794, the Reign of Terror is burning itself out, and Robespierre himself becomes the Pimpernel’s adversary. Percy schemes to save those marked for the guillotine while Robespierre’s own grip on power begins to slip. Orczy keeps the familiar machinery running: disguises, coded messages, last-minute reversals, and the maddening gap between the foppish English gentleman everyone underestimates and the daring rescuer he secretly is. Fans of the series will find the mixture of romance and peril as brisk as ever. Free to download as a PDF or EPUB, this edition brings one of the sequels back into easy reach.
About the Author
Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865 to 1947) was a Hungarian-born British author who settled in London and made her name with The Scarlet Pimpernel. Her sweeping romances of the French Revolution created one of fiction’s first masked heroes and shaped a century of adventure storytelling.
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