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Armand St Just, his beautiful sister Marguerite and her husband Sir Percy Blakeney are once again caught up in the turmoil of revolutionary France. And adventurer Baron de Batz enters the story. It is 1794 and Paris, 'despite the horrors that had stained her walls - had remained a city of pleasure, and the knife of the guillotine did scarce descend more often than did the drop-scenes on the stage.'
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Baroness Orczy was born in Hungary in 1865, the daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a landed aristocrat and well-known composer and conductor. Shemoved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels and then Paris, where she was educated. Orczy alsostudied art in London and exhibited work atthe Royal Academy. Later sheMontagu Barstow and together they worked as illustrators and jointly published an edition of Hungarian folk tales. Fame came in1905 with the publication of The Scarlet Pimpernel, which was originally a play co-written with her husband. Its background of Revolution in France and swashbuckling hero, 'Sir Percy Blakeney', was to prove immensely popular. Sequels followed and many years later film and TV versions are enduringly popular, with new productions from time to time. However, Orczy alsoalso wrote detective stories which have a following today amongst those intersted in the genre. She died in 1947.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is definatley one of the best in the Scarlet Pimpernel series, if not THE best of those I've read thus far (seeing that most of the books are out of print). The story greatly depends on the power of love, from friendship love to romantic love. For Armand St. Just, the brother-in-law of the incredulous Sir Percy Blakeney, love gets him into trouble and causes him to doubt his role in the league of the Pimpernel. For Blakeney, loves inspires him to keep up the fight, even when he is betrayed, captured, and tortured. And poor Magurite is left to try her best to love and assist her husband in whatever way she can. Chauvelin sinks to an ultimate low to take his revenge on our hero, and you REALLY start to wonder how Percy's gonna get himself out of this one!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
In many ways this book is even better than the first novel in the series. It is better written and the characters are more fleshed out than in any "pimpernel" book that came before or after it. The beautiful relationship between Percy and Marguerite is at the heart of the story, which also heavily involves Armand Saint-Just, who is in trouble again. The depth of the league's love and devotion to Percy is also brought to the fore front as Percy is captured and tortured by Chauvelin and his goons. If you love Percy, get your kleenex ready before you begin the book, because some truly terrible methods of persuasion are used against our hero. There are some absolutely wonderful scenes between Percy and Marguerite as she visits him in the jail in a pretty sad state physically. The Baroness waxed on and on in the earlier chapters about how much the leaguers loved Percy, so when he's stuck in the Conciegerie being tormented, you just want to holler "WHERE'S THE FREAKIN'LEAGUE! GET HIM OUT OF THERE!"
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This is a sequel to the fabulous Scarlet Pimpernel. The Pimpernel returns again to France to rescue the downtrodden. This time his goal is to rescue the Dauphin, the heir to the French throne. He naturally goes about this with his incredible style and flash. This book is the source for much of the plot in the Scarlet Pimpernel movie from the 80s.
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