The Scarlet Pimpernel - Softcover

Orczy, Baroness

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340894989 ISBN 13: 9780340894989

Verlag: Hodder Paperback, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

The Terror has begun.Paris, 1792. Each day scores of the French nobility feed the guillotine. They are trapped in the capital., There is no escape.But rumours whisper of a league of young English gentleman of unparalleled daring who are risking their lives to spirit aristocrats across the Channel. They leave no trace behind them except a note from the 'Scarlet Pimpernel'.The ruthless spy master Chauvelin is determined to stop the rescuers by fair means or foul, and, desperately outnumbered, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his men must use all their wits to evade capture and stay alive.

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Críticas:

Anyone who feels that their outward manner is but a travesty of their inner self can hardly fail to respond to THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL * Independent *

Biografía del autor:

Baroness Orczy was the daughter of a musician. Educated in Paris and Brussels, she then studied art in London, where she exhibited some of her work at the Royal Academy. THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL was the first success in her long writing career which encompassed both plays and novels.

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• Verlag: Hodder Paperback
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0340894989
• ISBN 13: 9780340894989
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320