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De Roode Pimpernel

by Emmuska Orczy Orczy

"De Roode Pimpernel" by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy is an adventure novel first performed as a play in 1905. Set in England during the French Revolution, it follows the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel, a disguised hero who rescues French aristocrats from execution. When Sir Percy Blakeney's wife Marguerite is blackmailed into helping the French agent Chauvelin unmask this elusive figure, she unknowingly becomes entangled in a dangerous game where nothing is as it seems.

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