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The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Author
- Baroness Orczy
- Narrator
- Alice Marti
- Publisher
- Musaicum Books
- Publish Date
- 1 June 2019
- Run Time
- 8 hours 8 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Baroness Orczy
- Narrator
- Alice Marti
- Duration
- 8 hours 8 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 June 2019
- ISBN
- 4057664120342
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Musaicum Books
- Genre
- Espionage and spy thriller, Historical adventure fiction
Synopsis
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a historical novel set during the Reign of Terror following the beginning of the French Revolution. The Scarlet Pimpernel is the name of a gallant Englishman in the time of the Terrors, who, with his band of gentlemen, rescues nobles before they can be killed by the vicious government in revolutionary France. He is known by his symbol, a simple flower, the pimpernel. He succeeds by masterful use of disguises and strict silence of the group's movements. His identity is undisclosed to all but his men. Marguerite Blakeney, French wife of a wealthy English dandy, is approached by the new French envoy to England with a threat to her brother's life if she does not help in his search for the Pimpernel…
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