The Complete Escapades of The Scarlet Pimpernel-Volume 3

Lord Tony's Wife & The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel

af Baroness Orczy

Volume three containing two adventures: ' Lord Tony's Wife' & ' The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel' Sir Percy Blakeney is not to be taken too seriously. In late 18th century England he is little more than a man given to trivial pleasures, an aristocratic and wealthy fop, unconcerned with politics or events on the other side of the English Channel where the France of the Bourbons has been violently swept away by the zealots of revolution. What is it to Sir Percy that the 'Reign of Terror' has c... (Læs mere)