01486 a2200277 4500 119133 OSt 20240403133439.0 240403b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 ENG d 9780140374544 broch. BR-BrIDEA BR-BrIDEA eng 823 P Year 7 823 ORC Orczy, Emmuska Orczy The scarlat pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy London Puffin Books 2004 323 p. The first and most successful in the Baroness's series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel "has almost reached its first centenary, and it is as vivid and appealing as ever because the plotting is perfect. It is a classic example of how to construct, pace, and conclude a plot. . . . To rise on the crest of laughter without capsizing, to survive being written, rewritten, and reinterpreted by each generation, is the mark of a plot that is timeless and universal, even though it happens to be set in England and France of 1792." Nobility - Fiction Action and adventure fiction. France - History - 1789-1799, Revolution - Fiction. 000034/00003439.jpg BK udc 0 0 ddc 0 0 12.28 12.28 2023-03-15 1 P Year 7 823 ORC 00061071SSW 2024-07-06 2024-05-07 10:46:12 2024-05-07 2024-01-23 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 12.27 12.27 2023-03-15 0 AP Year 7 823 ORC 00061072AGC 2024-01-23 15:02:19 2024-01-23 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 12.28 12.28 2023-03-15 0 P Year 7 823 ORC 00061073SSW 2024-01-23 15:02:19 2024-01-23 BK 119133 119133