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Classic Literature. Fiction. HTML: The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, published in 1919, is one of Baroness Orczy's sequels to The Scarlet Pimpernel. It contains eleven short stories that detail Sir Percy Blakeney's adventures in rescuing aristocrats and citizens alike from the fate of the guillotine..
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LibraryThing member AdonisGuilfoyle
'We seek him here/We seek him there - Chauvelin seeks him everywhere!' Poor old Chauvelin is outwitted three times in this collection of short stories, mentally and physically exhausted after chasing after the Pimpernel. Several entertaining interludes in the career of that demmed elusive hero,
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told by those he rescues and those who get caught up in his schemes. The League's main technique is bluff and bluster - insist loudly and for long enough, and people will believe you are who you say you are. Also, never invent a disguise, always 'replace' a real person. Familiar characters such as Bibot and Rateau make guest appearances, and tantalisingly, it is inferred that Marguerite accompanies her husband to take care of the emigres being smuggled out of Paris. My favourite tales are those with Chauvelin - 'Sir Percy Explains' and 'A Battle of Wits'. Show Less
LibraryThing member elbakerone
League of the Scarlet Pimpernel follows Baroness Orczy's original novel The Scarlet Pimpernel with further tales of Sir Percy Blakeney, a daring Englishman set on rescuing French aristocrats from fate of the guillotine. The short novel is told in a vignette style with each chapter telling of a
Overall, I preferred the more cohesive tale told in the first book of the series, but the lighthearted adventure and the lovable characters still produce a fun and engaging book.
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different encounter of the master of disguise and his fellowship.Overall, I preferred the more cohesive tale told in the first book of the series, but the lighthearted adventure and the lovable characters still produce a fun and engaging book.
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LibraryThing member Unreachableshelf
Again, short stories do not seem to be Baroness Orczy's forte. She goes too quickly for her favorite and most frequently used plot devices, and doesn't have time to build them into anything unique. She also probably should have stayed away from the first person: I'm not one of those people who has
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something against first person in theory, but when your first person narrator's voices sound exactly like your third person narration, you probably shouldn't do it. There are a few longer pieces in this book, which are the best of them. Show Less
LibraryThing member john257hopper
This is a collection of short stories written late in the author's life, with a collection of daring rescues by the English "milor" of doomed French aristos. The stories are in effect rather humorous and repetitive and lack even the minimal depth of the original Scarlet Pimpernel novel; there are
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no subtle characters here, everyone is either a heroic doomed aristocrat or a dirty, evil revolutionary extremist. For completists only. Show Less
Original publication date
1919
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Scarlet Pimpernel, 03
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