The scarlet pimpernel /
Baroness Orczy
- This William Collins paperback edition published in Great Britain in 2018
- London : William Collins, 2008
- 316 pages : 18 cm
During the French Revolution a secret society of English gentlemen is formed by the enigmatic Scarlet Pimpernel, to rescue their fellow French nobility. Marguerite's brother is threatened by a Frenchman, who demands information on the Scarlet Pimpernel in return for her brother's safety. Marguerite makes the exchange only to discover that her boring fop of a husband is the Pimpernel himself! She follows him to France and so each proves themselves to the other what they really are.
1140 Lexile
9780008278762
Life and time --Historical fiction Glossary of Classic --Historical fiction