The Scarlet Pimpernel

<b>A timeless novel of adventure intrigue and romance is sparked by one man's defiance in the face of authority...</b><br><br>The year is 1792. The French Revolution driven to excess by its own triumph has turned into a reign of terror. Daily tumbrels bearing new victims to the guillotine roll over the cobbled streets of Paris.&#133; Thus the stage is set for one of the most enthralling novels of historical adventure ever written.<br> &#160;<br> The mysterious figure known as the Scarlet Pimpernel sworn to rescue helpless men women and children from their doom; his implacable foe the French agent Chauvelin relentlessly hunting him down; and lovely Marguerite Blakeney a beautiful French exile married to an English lord and caught in a terrible conflict of loyalties&#151;all play their parts in a suspenseful tale that ranges from the squalid slums of Paris to the aristocratic salons of London from intrigue on a great English country estate to the final denouement on the cliffs of the French coast.<br> &#160;<br> There have been many imitations of <i>The Scarlet Pimpernel</i> but none has ever equaled its superb sense of color and drama and its irresistible gift of wonderfully romantic escape.<br><br><b>With an Introduction by Gary Hoppenstand</b>