The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy Juvenile Fiction, Action & Adventure, (Paperback)

from john257hopper

This is a collection of short stories written late in the author's life, with a collection of daring rescues by the English "milor" of doomed French aristos. The stories are in effect rather humorous and repetitive and lack even the minimal depth of the original Scarlet Pimpernel novel; there are...

from Unreachableshelf

Again, short stories do not seem to be Baroness Orczy's forte. She goes too quickly for her favorite and most frequently used plot devices, and doesn't have time to build them into anything unique. She also probably should have stayed away from the first person: I'm not one of those people who ha...

from elbakerone

League of the Scarlet Pimpernel follows Baroness Orczy's original novel The Scarlet Pimpernel with further tales of Sir Percy Blakeney, a daring Englishman set on rescuing French aristocrats from fate of the guillotine. The short novel is told in a vignette style with each chapter telling of a di...