The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel
by:
Emmuska Orczy (author)
The year is 1793, the darkest days of the French revolution, and little Charles-Léon is ill. The delicate son of Louise and Bastien de Croissy is recommended country air, but travel permits are needed - and impossible to come by. Louise's friend, Josette, believes she knows a way out. For Josette...
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The year is 1793, the darkest days of the French revolution, and little Charles-Léon is ill. The delicate son of Louise and Bastien de Croissy is recommended country air, but travel permits are needed - and impossible to come by. Louise's friend, Josette, believes she knows a way out. For Josette is convinced that her hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel, will come to their rescue. She refuses to believe that he only exists in her imagination. 'I say that the Scarlet Pimpernel can do anything! And I mean to get in touch with him,' she vows, and sets forth into the Paris streets...
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780899664613 (089966461X)
Publish date: December 12th 1983
Publisher: Buccaneer Books
Pages no: 318
Edition language: English
Series: The Scarlet Pimpernel (#6)
I enjoyed this sixth Scarlet Pimpernel slightly more than most of the others I've read during Project Finally Read All Those Pimpernel Books I Bought 7 or 8 Year Ago. (I'm still working on the project name. Even the acronym is unwieldy. Project RATPBIB7o8YA. Looks like a CDC virus classification or ...
This wasn't my favourite Pimpernel book, but it was still enjoyable. Some things about the story just didn't work as well for me as the others.
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