The Scarlet Pimpernel Series – All 35 Titles in One Edition: Historical Action-Adventure Classics, Including The Laughing Cavalier, Sir Percy Leads the Band…

by Emmuska Orczy

This carefully edited Scarlet Pimpernel collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.  
Sir Percy Blakeney presents himself as a dim-witted, foppish playboy, but in fact he is a master of disguise, an imaginative planner, a formidable swordsman and a quick-thinking escape artist who rescues individuals sentenced to death by the guillotine. With each rescue he taunts his enemies by leaving behind a card showing a small flower—a scarlet pimpernel. His secret is kept by a band of friends known as the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel. The league operates as an undercover team in enacting Sir Percy's rescue plans. The Complete Scarlet Pimpernel Series contains 15 novels and 20 short stories:
Table of Contents:
The Laughing Cavalier
The First Sir Percy
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Sir Percy Leads the Band
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Sir Percy Explains
A Question of Passports
Two Good Patriots
The Old Scarecrow
A Fine Bit of Work
How Jean-Pierre Met the Scarlet Pimpernel
Out of the Jaws of Death
The Traitor
The Cabaret de la Liberté
Needs Must
A Battle of Wits
I Will Repay
The Elusive Pimpernel
Lord Tony's Wife
The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Eldorado
Mam'zelle Guillotine
Sir Percy Hits Back
Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Fie, Sir Percy!
The Principal Witness
The Stranger from Paris
Fly-By-Night
The Lure of the Old Chateau
In the Tiger's Den
The Little Doctor
The Chief's Way
The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
A Child of the Revolution
In the Rue Monge
Pimpernel and Rosemary
The Scarlet Pimpernel Looks at the World



 

340 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 27, 2011

About the author

Full name: Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi was a Hungarian-British novelist, best remembered as the author of THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1905). Baroness Orczy's sequels to the novel were less successful. She was also an artist, and her works were exhibited at the Royal Academy, London. Her first venture into fiction was with crime stories. Among her most popular characters was The Old Man in the Corner, who was featured in a series of twelve British movies from 1924, starring Rolf Leslie.

Baroness Emmuska Orczy was born in Tarnaörs, Hungary, as the only daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a noted composer and conductor, and his wife Emma. Her father was a friend of such composers as Wagner, Liszt, and Gounod. Orczy moved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels and then to London, learning to speak English at the age of fifteen. She was educated in convent schools in Brussels and Paris. In London she studied at the West London School of Art. Orczy married in 1894 Montague Barstow, whom she had met while studying at the Heatherby School of Art. Together they started to produce book and magazine illustrations and published an edition of Hungarian folktales.

Orczy's first detective stories appeared in magazines. As a writer she became famous in 1903 with the stage version of the Scarlet Pimpernel.