The Scarlet Pimpernel

Posted on 24 April 2018 by Emmuska Orczy

Armed with only his wits and his cunning, one man recklessly defies the French revolutionaries and rescues scores of innocent men, women, and children from the deadly guillotine His friends and foes know him only as the Scarlet Pimpernel But the ruthless French agent Chauvelin is sworn to discover his identity and to hunt him down. Download The Scarlet Pimpernel – kino-fada.fr Here s my new and improved title for this book The Scarlet Pimpernel A Classic That Doesn t Suck Sweaty Balls. I can t usually make it through classic literature Does this make me a bad person I think not.There are manymanymany other things I do on a daily basis that make me a bad person, but not being able to force myself to read in my opinion outdated and overrated books is not one of them.There are other readers out there like me, I m sure of it And it s you guys that I m talking to Here s my new and improved title for this book The Scarlet Pimpernel A Classic That Doesn t Suck Sweaty Balls. I can t usually make it through classic literature Does this make me a bad person I think not.There are manymanymany other things I do on a daily basis that make me a bad person, but not being able to force myself to read in my opinion outdated and overrated books is not one of them.There are other readers out there like me, I m sure of it And it s you guys that I m talking to now.Rejoice, fellow slackers There is a classic that you can actually read Imagine itYou re sitting on a bench engrossed in a book The person next to you leans over and asks,What are you readingYou can finally plaster a smug ass smile on your face and say,Why, right now I m thoroughly enjoying Orczy s classic, The Scarlet PimpernelSee Doesn t that sound awesome And w...Odd s Fish Is this book an action adventure, a romance, historical fiction Baroness Orczy has provided us with all that Tis a fun romp, I say Had I known how much of this story was romance, I might not have read it but then I would have missed out on how good an all round story it really is.Baroness Orczy was a playwright and this book was adapted into a play or the play was adapted into the book I know not which was first It does have it s faults but still deserving of it s place in liter Odd s Fish Is this book an action adventure, a romance, historical fiction Baroness Orczy has provided us with all that Tis a fun romp, I say Had I known how much of this story was romance, I might not have read it but then I would have missed out on how good an all round story it really is.Baroness Orczy was a playwright and this book was adapted into a play or the play was adapted into the b...I ve always had a thing for books that use the Scarlet Pimpernel trope the intelligent, capable person who hides behind a mask of inanity So Emma Orczy gets extra points from me for popularizing this secret identity plot device in her 1905 book The Scarlet Pimpernel.It s 1792, the early days of the French Revolution, and the Reign of Terror is at its peak thousands of French aristocrats, men, women and children, are sent to the guillotine, regardless of actual fault But a group of brave Engl I ve always had a thing for books that use the Scarlet Pimpernel trope the intelligent, capable person who hides behind a mask of inanity So Emma Orczy gets extra points from me for popularizing this secret identity plot device in her 1905 book The Scarlet Pimpernel.It s 1792, the early days of the French Revolution, and the Reign of Terror is at its peak thousands of French aristocrats, men, women and children, are sent to the guillotine, regardless ...A surging, seething murmuring crowd, of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness OrczyIt s been too long since I last enjoyed a classic novel and I was beginning to fear that I was falling out of love with my favourite genre Well, I found the remedy with The Scarlet Pimpernel What a lot of fun The French Revolution is one of my favour A surging, seething murmuring crowd, of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness OrczyIt s been too long since I last enjoyed a classic novel and I was beginning to fear that I was falling out of love with my favourite genre Well, I found the remedy with The Scarlet Pimpernel What a lot of fun The French Revolution is one of my favourite periods of history to learn about despite the morbidity and the violence and cruelty It s shocking to be reminded of the fact that even children were guillotined It makes you wonder why on earth people felt th...9 10 Ah, classic. How I had always imagined that the classics are only for those who are born, brought up, spoon fed in and potty trained in English and how wrong was I to think that they are out of the reach of people like me who had only subnormal command over the English language Among many other popular authors of the classic era,Emmuska Orczywas a name much bandied about for her magnum opus,The Scarlet Pimpernel, even during my school days I can t quite pinpoint th 9 10 Ah, classic. How I had always imagined that the classics are only for those who are born, brought up, spoon fed in and potty trained in Eng...If, like me, you watched the movietimes than you d care to admit when you were growing up or if, like me, you ve read all of Georgette Heyer s Regency romances and then some, you ll love this book It doesn t pretend to be anything extraordinary, it doesn t even offer a social commentary on the period in which it s set written by an aristocrat who is clearly on the side of the aristocrats, it s easy to see where her sympathies lie But it is a rollicking good ride, a fun adventure story If, like me, you watched the movietimes than you d care to admit when you were growing up or if, like me, you ve read all of Georgette Heyer s Regency romances and then some, you ll love this book It doesn t pretend to be anything extraordinary, it doesn t even offer a social commentary on the period in which it s set written by an aristocrat who is clearly on the side of the aristocrats, it s easy to see where her sympathies lie But it is a rollicking good ride, a fun adventure story, a very sweet and at times intense love story...Okay, I read this for exactly two reasons one, I thought this book was on The List it s not and two, the Scarlet Pimpernel is the inspiration for the Bruce Wayne Batman dichotomy and I am a giant dork For a book about a secret team of English nobleman working to rescue French nobles from the scary revolutionists who want them dead, this is a surprisingly unexciting book The pace is fast, and there s plenty of spying and blackmailing and races against time, but there isn t a single fistfigh Okay, I read this for exactly two reasons one, I thought this book was on The List it s not and two, the Scarlet Pimpernel is the inspiration for the Bruce Wayne Batman dichotomy and I am a giant dork For a book about a secret team of English nobleman working to rescue French nobles from the scary revolutionists who want them dead, this is a surprisingly unexciting book The pace is fast, and there s plenty of spying and blackmailing and races against time, but there isn t a single fistfight, swordfight, gunfight or slapping fight in the whole book There s sort of a chase scene at the end, but the pursued party is in a slow moving cart and the pursuer is on foot There s plenty of drama and intrigue and excitement...This novel is set in 1792 in England and France during the French Revolution s Reign of Terror In spite of the time and seriousness of these events, the novel doesn t take itself too seriously Baroness Orczy wasn t trying to be political or make a statement, she was just trying to write a good story What she wrote was a rollicking bit of a mystery adventure intrigue that was for me surprisingly good The story is about an unknown, but gallant, Englishman and his secret band of followers w This novel is set in 1792 in England and France during the French Revolution s Reign of Terror In spite of the time and seriousness of these events, the novel doesn t take itself too seriously Baroness Orczy wasn t trying to be political or make a statement, she was just trying to write a good story What she wrote was a rollicking bit of a mystery adventure intrigue that was for me surprisingly good The story is about an unknown, but gallant, Englishman and his secret band ...Melodrama all the rage when this was written so be prepared, it s pretty silly A fast easy read you can whip off in no time that s a lot of fun Odd s fish but that Sir Percy is HIGHLY amusingThe foppish ways, the affected movements, the perpetual inane laughHigh intrigue will keep you turning those pages, and who can resist a guy named Pimpernel who runs around in various disguises rescuing people from having their heads lopped off Loved him forhis marvellous audacity, the boundless Melodrama all the rage when this was written so be prepared, it s pretty silly A fast easy read you can whip off in no time that s a lot of fun Odd s fish but that Sir Percy is HIGHLY amusingThe foppish ways, the affected movements, the perpetual inane laughHigh intrigue will keep you turning those pages, and who can resist a guy named Pimpernel who runs around in various disguises rescuing people from having their heads lopped off Loved him forhis marvellous audacity, the boundless impudence which had caused him to beard his most implacable enemies For historical adventure 4 stars, as romance maybe a 2 As kudos for creating the truly superb character of Sir Percy Blakeney 3 1 2 starsCons The heroine Lady MargueriteWe re supposed to believe she s the cleverest woman in...When the guillotine dropped quickly, remorselessly, and often, there arose a mysterious Englishman, who crossed the channel, to rescue the French Aristocrats mostly innocent victims , he called himself, The Scarlet Pimpernel Named after a modest, British flower, this person organized a band of twenty high born men, he like the flower, was unpretentious Their daring deeds, thrilled the world, Antoine Fouquier Tinville, director of the French government, wants to capture these enemies Off When the guillotine dropped quickly, remorselessly, and often, there arose a mysterious Englishman, who crossed the channel, to rescue the French Aristocrats mostly innocent victims , he called himself, The Scarlet Pimpernel Named after a modest, British flower, this person organized a band of twenty high born men, he like the flower, was unpretentious Their daring deeds, thrilled the world, Antoine Fouquier Tinville, director of the French government, wants to capture these enemies Offers 5,000 francs, for the head, of the unknown leader But the brilliant Pimpernel, has supernatural powers, they sayThe Terror was just beginning, Sir Percy Blakeney, is a rather silly, unintelligent, fop everyone thought so Percy trav...

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24 April 2018

Emmuska Orczy