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The Scarlet Pimpernel

If you've never read The Scarlet Pimpernel, order this great book now! Move over Zorro and Superman ? here is the first costumed-hero with a secret identity, plus literature's most fiery, independent and alluring heroine.

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Title of ebook: The Scarlet Pimpernel
ISBN: 9781588730282
Publisher: Renaissance eBooks
Internet download file size: 268 kb
Pages: 264
Released online for download: 09-01-2001
Author of eBook: Orczy, Baroness

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Chapter I

Paris: September 1792

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd, of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation’s glory and his own vanity.

During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that France had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity. The carnage had only ceased at this late hour of the day because there were other more interesting sights for the people to witness, a little while ... read full excerpt from The Scarlet Pimpernel ebook