The Scarlet Pimpernel

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Louis-Léopold Boilly, Thomas Lawrence and Marguerite Gérard. An English fop with the finest lace in London leads a league that snatches aristocrats from the guillotine, and the Republic's cleverest agent is set on finding out who he is. Orczy's book was turned down by a dozen publishers; she and her husband staged it as a play first, it ran for ...