The Scrarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

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The Scarlet Pimpernel is a heroic story of love, adventure, betrayal, and redemption, set against the background of the "Reign of Terror" during the French Revolution.  Hundreds of aristocrats were being guillotined day after day.

Some were spared this fate thanks to a mysterious rescuer, the Englishman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel, who, along with a band of loyal supporters, snatches doomed aristocrats from their fate through daring rescues and disguises.  The story takes shape as one family of aristocrats escapes to England, only to become enmeshed in a strange plot involving the French Lady Blakney and her foppish husband.

Lady Blakney is blackmailed into betraying the Scarlet Pimpernel himself, only to discover when it is almost too late who he really is!

Format: Sony Reader