EDIT: DO NOT READ THE BOOK SUMMARY It gives away the most fun part of the book! Goodreads fixed it--hooray! Apparently it wasn't fixed in all of the versions--curses!Anyways, I loved the crap out of this book in junior high/high school. Man oh man! LOVED IT.
I really enjoyed this book. It was a quick read, and a rather satisfying story of redemption and love. I would have liked to see a bit more about why the Scarlet Pimpernel set out on his mission in the first place. It seems rather disappointing for it to be simply sport. Not very noble to play with ...
Not a bad adventure story. There's a bit of stereotypical anti-Semitism toward the end that might offend but it doesn't tarnish the overall enjoyment of the book too much (and it was sensibly dropped in the Leslie Howard/Merle Oberon film version).Interestingly Orczy writes almost entirely from the ...
After loving the musical for so long, I decided to dive into the book before I watched a film adaption.Overall, I loved the book. The only things I was disappointed with was the extreme lack of Percy, who is the most enigmatic character in the whole series. Instead we're left with Marguerite's point...
This is a reread for me of the early 20th century swash-buckling classic. I read this wonderful tale in my mid teens. Loved it. Reread it less than ten years ago because we had a reissue of the whole series in French. I recently got the soundtrack of the Broadway musical and just felt like reading ...
I would love to re-read this, but sadly, I think the evil book gnomes might steal some of my stars if I attempted it. I read this when I was a kid, and thereafter saw the movie (the 1982 version with Jane Seymour.) By that time, I'd already learned my snobbish book ways, and thought the movie was at...
I love this book so much that I wrote my own version, so that pretty much tells you what I think of it. Orczy's novel is typical of its time (1905) in having far more description and "telling" than a twenty-first-century reader expects. But once that reader adjusts his/her focus, s/he will find this...
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