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040			_aBR-BrIDEA _cBR-BrIDEA
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090			_aP Year 7 823 _bORC
100			_aOrczy, Emmuska Orczy
245	1	0	_aThe scarlat pimpernel _cEmmuska Orczy Orczy
260			_aLondon _bPuffin Books _c2004
300			_a323 p.
520			_aThe 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."
697			_aNobility - Fiction
697			_aAction and adventure fiction.
697			_aFrance - History - 1789-1799, Revolution - Fiction.
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