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Two stories by the author Baroness Emma Orczy. "The Man in Grey" is
set in Napoleonic France in 1809, and is comprised of nine
inter-connected short stories about the mysterious Man in Grey's
adventures in tracking down Royalist criminals for the Government.
"In the Rue Monge" is about a scientist arrested by revolutionaries
during the French Revolution and about to be executed as an enemy
of the French government. But an English friend is determined to
rescue him and take him to England. Will his plan succeed?
The last book in the Scarlet Pimpernel series.
Is he in heaven?-Is he in hell? That demmed, elusive Pimpernel? Sir
Percy Blakeney lives a double life in the England of 1792: at home
he is an idle fop and a leader of fashion, but in abroad he is the
Scarlet Pimpernel, a master of disguise who saves aristocrats from
the guillotine. When the revolutionary French state seeks to unmask
him, Percy's estranged, independent wife, Marguerite, unwittingly
sets their agent on her husband's track. Percy's escapades, and
Marguerite's daring journey to France to save him from the
guillotine, keep the reader turning the pages of Baroness Orczy's
well-paced romantic adventure. Written in just five weeks in 1903,
Baroness Emma Orczy's bestseller has been the basis of multiple
adaptations. Rooted in the upheaval of Orczy's Hungarian childhood,
and in the anxious nationalism of turn-of-the-century Britain, the
story of the Scarlet Pimpernel provided a blueprint not only for
subsequent historical swashbucklers, but for superheroes from Zorro
to Superman. The edition places the book The Scarlet Pimpernel
within the context of the elite and popular literature of the turn
of the century. Orczy's novel is close in kin to such contemporary
political thrillers as Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent (1907);
tales that channelled contemporary concerns about refugees and
enemies within.
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