More hair-raising adventures of the elusive pimpernel from Baroness Orczy's skilled pen. Not to be be missed by children of any age

The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic novel-an extremely entertaining part romance, part adventure, part spy thriller, and part superhero fiction. The Scarlet Pimpernel follows the adventures of Sir Percy Blakeney as he seeks to help French aristocrats escape the guillotine during the French Revolution. Since official English policy forbids this, Blakeney adopts a masked identity as the Scarlet Pimpernel to remain anonymous. The French, of course, detest this interference in their affairs and set out to trap and kill the Pimpernel at all costs. As part of his effort to deflect suspicion from...