| The Scarlet Pimpernel Contributor(s): Orczy, Emmuska (Author) |
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ISBN: 014037454X ISBN-13: 9780140374544 Publisher: Puffin Books OUR PRICE: $5.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: An enthralling novel of historical adventure unfolds as the enigmatic Scarlet Pimpernel swears to protect the innocent from the sinister reign of terror imposed by the leaders of the French Revolution. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Classics - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - Europe - Juvenile Fiction | Law & Crime |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1140 |
| Series: Puffin Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.08" W x 7.77" (0.57 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Catalog Heading - Classics - Curriculum Strand - Language Arts |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 544 Reading Level: 8.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 15.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first and most successful in the Baroness's series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel "has almost reached its first centenary, and it is as vivid and appealing as ever because the plotting is perfect. It is a classic example of how to construct, pace, and conclude a plot. . . . To rise on the crest of laughter without capsizing, to survive being written, rewritten, and reinterpreted by each generation, is the mark of a plot that is timeless and universal, even though it happens to be set in England and France of 1792." |
