The Collected Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel: Omnibus Edition of Sir Percy's Adventures

by Emmuska Orczy

Join Sir Percy Blakeney and his band of noble heroes, the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, as they struggle to save English aristocrats before they are put to the death by guillotine during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution.The Scarlet Pimpernel and subsequent novels follow the many adventures of Sir Percy, a daring hero who cultivates a secret identity known as the Scarlet Pimpernel. To disguise his dangerous exploits and true nature, Sir Percy leads a double life pretending to be wealthy fop but, in reality, he is a chivalrous British aristocrat, acclaimed swordsman, escape artist, master of disguise, and overall righter of wrongs.In many ways a work of pioneering fiction, The Scarlet Pimpernel laid the groundwork for later heroes who led double lives. Superman, Batman, Zorro, the Shadow, the Spider, and the Phantom all followed Sir Percy and his alter ego The Scarlet Pimpernel within a just few decades. The trope of a great hero leading a double life remains popular in movies, comics, and fiction to this day thanks, in part, to Sir Percy's efforts establishing the tradition.This omnibus edition includes ten Scarlet Pimpernel novels and short story collections Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)I Will Repay (1906)The Elusive Pimpernel (1908)Eldorado (1913)Lord Tony's Wife (1917)The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1922)Collections of short League of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1919)Related Laughing Cavalier (1913) (about an ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel)The First Sir Percy (1920) (about an ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel)Pimpernel and Rosemary (1924) (about a descendant of the Scarlet Pimpernel)This book also includes an interactive table of contents to facilitate navigation through Sir Percy's many adventures.

3536 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 15, 2021

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.

Reviews

[booklady · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very reasonably priced kindle collection of these books. It is not comprehensive unfortunately, but I could not find one which contained ALL of her books (that's not to say it isn't out there, my search was not exhaustive!) and this is fairly complete.

11/18/2025: Setting it aside.

[Ralph Petts · Rating 5 out of 5]

loved it!