{"product_id":"9781934169124","title":"The Scarlet Pimpernel (Book 1 Of The Scarlet Pimpernel Series)","description":"When Baroness Emmuska Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905), little did she know she was creating the super hero genre.\u003cp\u003eWho is the elusive and mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel? A master of clever disguises, stealth and elegant escapes -- skills that he uses to rescue doomed French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. His signature -- a tiny scarlet flower. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Pimpernel's true identity is unknown except to a small group of co-conspirators who work with him and together comprise the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Not even his wife, the beautiful Lady Marguerite Blakeney, knows that the man she is married to, an effete fop and dull-witted British dandy Sir Percy Blakeney, is a secret hero who risks his life on a daily basis in order to save countless others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA vibrant adventure awaits the reader -- heart-pounding narrow escapes, clever repartee and dashing wit, true love thwarted and redeemed, a relentless agent of the French Republican Government who makes it his personal goal to capture and destroy the Scarlet Pimpernel, and of course Percy's immortal \"bon mot\" that makes the social rounds in England and France:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We seek him here, we seek him there,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose Frenchies seek him everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs he in heaven? -- Is he in hell?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat demmed, elusive Pimpernel.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook One of \"The Scarlet Pimpernel Series\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norilana Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062304194800,"sku":"9781934169124","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934169124_p0.jpg?v=1763641293","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934169124","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}