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The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) is a play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution.
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Classical in form, resolved, earnest and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Emma Orczy
- First published
- 1900
- Pages
- 303
- Publisher
- Bookcassette, Caedmon Audio Cassette, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 591
- Language
- Chinese, sun, French, Polish
- ISBN
- 9781976162886
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“A SURGING, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.”
Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi was born in Tarnaörs, Heves County, Hungary, the daughter of composer Baron Felix Orczy and Countess Emma Wass. In 1868, fearing a potential peasant revolution, her parents left Hungary. They lived in Budapest, Brussels, and Paris before settling in London in 1880. Orczy attended West London School of Art and then Heatherley's School of Fine Art. In 1894, she married illustrator Montague MacLean Barstow, whom she had met at art school. The couple had very little money, and Orczy started to work with her husband as a translator and an illustrator. In 1899, she had a child, and published her first novel, The Emperor's
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