The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy (BK Classic) Paperback

An English aristocrat smuggling French nobles away from the guillotine gives Baroness Orczy's adventure its engine. The novel is often credited with establishing the masked hero who hides behind an ordinary identity, a pattern that later adventure writing and comic-book fiction borrowed heavily from. Set during the French Revolution, it moves between disguise, pursuit and the strained marriage at the centre of the plot, with a pace that goes some way to explaining its long life in print. Maple Press issues this 300-page paperback for readers coming to it new or returning after school. Handy to know: • Adventure fiction set during the French Revolution • An early model for the secret-identity hero • A 300-page paperback from Maple Press Pvt Ltd • The novel presented in a single volume Recommended for classic adventure readers, senior school students and collectors of period fiction, stocked at Boipoka.