Sir Percy Leads the Band (The Scarlet Pimpernel #2)
by:
Emmuska Orczy (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
2940012291592 (0012291595)
Publish date: February 28th 2011
Publisher: Ryetown Classics
Edition language: English
Series: The Scarlet Pimpernel (#2)
This is the second adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel (chronologically speaking, according to Goodreads), and while entertaining, it's not quite so endearing as the first. The number of times I can see the Pimpernel compared to Jesus Christ without my eyes rolling out of my head is a relatively low ...
[These notes were made in 1986; I read it in a Hodder & Stoughton 1939 edition:]. Well, at least it's not Marguerite who causes all the trouble this time! It's St. John Devinne, a member of the band, tho' not one of the 'regulars,' who has the effrontery to put his judgment up against Percy's, and ...
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