The Complete Escapades of The Scarlet Pimpernel-Volume 1 - The Scarlet Pimpernel & I Will Repay - Baroness Orczy

Volume One containing two adventures: 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'& 'I Will Repay'Sir Percy Blakeney is not to be taken too seriously. In late 18th century England he is little more than a man given to trivial pleasures, an aristocratic and wealthy fop, unconcerned with politics or events on the other side of the English Channel where the France of the Bourbons has been violently swept away by the zealots of revolution. What is it to Sir Percy that the 'Reign of Terror' has cast its shadow over all of..