The Scarlet Pimpernel: The League and the Guillotine
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Louis-Léopold Boilly, Thomas Lawrence and Marguerite Gérard. An English fop with the finest lace in London leads a league that snatches aristocrats from the guillotine, and the Republic's cleverest agent is set on finding out who he is. Orczy's book was turned down by a dozen publishers; she and her husband staged it as a play first, it ran for four years, and the novel then sold in the millions — the hero with a secret identity in its classic form, ancestor of Zorro and every masked avenger since. Fifty-seven plates of portraiture and naval painting, from Gainsborough to Lawrence, supply the faces and the ships of the age that made the League possible.
Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Louis-Léopold Boilly, Thomas Lawrence and Marguerite Gérard. An English fop with the finest lace in London leads a league that snatches aristocrats from the guillotine, and the Republic's cleverest agent is set on finding out who he is. Orczy's...
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Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865–1947) was a Hungarian-born British author who worked in London. She originated the character of the Scarlet Pimpernel, the protagonist of a series of historical adventure novels that includes The Scarlet Pimpernel, El Dorado, The Elusive Pimpernel, I Will Repay, and The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865–1947) was a Hungarian-born British author who worked in London. She originated the character of the Scarlet Pimpernel, the protagonist of a series of historical adventure novels that includes The Scarlet Pimpernel, El Dorado, The Elusive Pimpernel, I Will Repay, and T...
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