The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy

A band of daring Englishman risk life and limb to rescue French aristocrats from the guillotine during the Reign of Terror. Their audacious leader, The Scarlet Pimpernel, is known far and wide for his heroism, and is hailed as the ideal man, despite the fact that nobody knows his true identity.

Among his devoted fans is unhappy Marguerite Blakeney, a native Frenchwoman herself, who now finds herself in an unfortunate marriage to the most idiotic fop in England. When Marguerite is blackmailed into discovering the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel, she faces a terrible decision: allow her beloved brother to be killed, or sacrifice the secret identity of the world’s most admired hero?