Wednesday, May 11, 2011

"Odd's Fish!" "The Scarlet Pimpernel" {by Baroness Emmuska Orczy} Book Club Ideas


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Our Book Club had a swashbuckling good time reading the 1903 classic, "The Scarlet Pimpernel!"

As always, the food was magnifique!

Sink Me... "The Scarlet Pimpernel" {by Baroness Emmuska Orczy} Book Review

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The Scarlet Pimpernel

Author: Emmuska Orczy

# of Pages: 273

Year Published: 1905

Publisher: Many publishers

Genre: Historical Fiction

Summary:  Armed with only his wits and his cunning, one man recklessly defies the French revolutionaries and rescues scores of innocent men, women, and children from the deadly guillotine. His friends and foes know him only as the Scarlet Pimpernel. But the ruthless French agent Chauvelin is sworn to discover his identity and to hunt him down.

They seek him here, they seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in Heaven or is he in Hell? That demmed, illusive, Pimpernel.