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The Scarlet Pimpernel

By Baroness Orczy

Cover of The Scarlet Pimpernel

Cover: Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), 1790 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, via Wikimedia Commons · CC0

The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction novels by British author Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title (co-authored with her husband Montagu Barstow) enjoyed a long run in London, having opened in Nottingham in 1903.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Paris: September, 1792
  2. 2: “The Fisherman’s Rest”
  3. 3: The Refugees
  4. 4: The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
  5. 5: Marguerite
  6. 6: An Exquisite of ’92
  7. 7: The Secret Orchard
  8. 8: The Accredited Agent
  9. 9: The Outrage
  10. 10: In the Opera Box
  11. 11: Lord Grenville’s Ball
  12. 12: The Scrap of Paper
  13. 13: Either—Or?
  14. 14: One O’Clock Precisely!
  15. 15: Doubt
  16. 16: Richmond
  17. 17: Farewell
  18. 18: The Mysterious Device
  19. 19: The Scarlet Pimpernel
  20. 20: The Friend
  21. 21: Suspense
  22. 22: Calais
  23. 23: Hope
  24. 24: The Death-Trap
  25. 25: The Eagle and the Fox
  26. 26: The Jew
  27. 27: On the Track
  28. 28: The Père Blanchard’s Hut
  29. 29: Trapped
  30. 30: The Schooner
  31. 31: The Escape