“Mr. Carey has given us much pleasure, and we are glad to praise this book. It has life, incident, and nearly all the qualities that give worth to romance.”—Baltimore Sun.
“Nothing could be better than the stirring pictures of the gay, dissolute, reckless, and intriguing life at Dresden. The story hums and sparkles with real life.”—Chicago Post.
“A story with a lofty ideal, and will hold the reader from cover to cover.”—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
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“Something distinctly out of the common, well conceived, vividly told, and stirring from start to finish.”—London Telegraph.
The
Scarlet Pimpernel
By Baroness Orczy
Author of “The Emperor’s Candlesticks,” etc.
A dramatic romance of the French Revolution and the Émigré Nobles. The “Scarlet Pimpernel” was the chief of a daring band of young Englishmen leagued together to rescue members of the French nobility from the Terrorists of France. The identity of the brilliant and resourceful leader is sacredly guarded by his followers and eagerly sought by the agents of the French Revolutionary Government. Scenes of intrigue, danger, and devotion, follow close one upon another. The heroine is a charming, fearless woman who in the end shares the honors with the “Scarlet Pimpernel.” In a stage version prepared by the author The Scarlet Pimpernel was one of the dramatic successes of the last London season, Mr. Fred Terry and Miss Julia Neilson acting the leading rôles.