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The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905.It was written after her stage play of the same title (co-authored with her husband Montague Barstow) enjoyed a long run in London, having opened in Nottingham in 1903.
Louis Bayard (born November 30, 1963) is an American author. His historical mysteries include The Pale Blue Eye , Mr. Timothy , The Black Tower , The School of Night , and Roosevelt's Beast , [ 4 ] and they have been translated into 11 languages.
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1934 British adventure film directed by Harold Young and starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, and Raymond Massey.Based on the 1905 play by Baroness Orczy and Montagu Barstow and the classic 1905 adventure novel by Orczy, the film is about an eighteenth-century English aristocrat (Howard) who leads a double life, passing himself off as an effete aristocrat while ...
He is cast as Sir Percy Blakeney's arch-enemy throughout the novel's many sequels and appears in almost all of them. The former ambassador to the Court of St. James's (The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Elusive Pimpernel), Chauvelin is both a representative in the National Assembly and the chief agent of the Committee of Public Safety.
The Elusive Pimpernel I Will Repay was written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy and originally published in 1906, this is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel . The second Pimpernel book written by Orczy, it comes chronologically third in the series, after Sir Percy Leads the Band and before The Elusive Pimpernel .
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1982 British romantic adventure television film set during the French Revolution. It is based on the novels The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) and Eldorado (1913) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy , and stars Anthony Andrews as Sir Percy Blakeney/the Scarlet Pimpernel, the protagonist, Jane Seymour as Marguerite St.
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel First published in 1936, Sir Percy Leads the Band is (chronologically) the second of the Scarlet Pimpernel series by Baroness Orczy . The novel is set in January and February 1793 and follows on from the original Scarlet Pimpernel book.
Eldorado, by Baroness Orczy is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of the original book.