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A Re-read of THE book that started me off on my reading journey... what can I say but that it's like a favourite piece of chocolate in that it never lets you down - Ain't Love Grand?!
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Straightforward adventure tale, set during the time of the French Revolution. If the gentle reader can accept (1) all members of the aristocracy are heroic, brave and noble; and, (2) most members of France's soldiers and innkeepers are very bloodthirsty and stupid (and probably better off as serfs than as free men); then the gentle reader can enjoy the romance and adventure of aristocrats winning their conflicts. The copy I read attempts to put the anti-Jewish subplot in historical context, but
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A wonderful story about a man who saves aristocrats from the guilotine during the French Revolution. My favorite characters where Lady Blakeney and her husband. I loved their dynamic as a husband and wife. The Scarlet Pimpernel is like many superheroes of today, saving those he did not know and doing his best to do what he can. I loved that he was so tricky and outwitted those who were trying to stop him. There were several parts that were very witty.
My mother picked this up from a second hand book shop for around three dollars and i was never so grateful in all my life that she did. This novel has everything - romance, mystery, action, suspense. Like the worlds first great action hero, Orczy created a legend when she first penned that Pimpernel dressed in ratty clothes saving Frenchies in one moment, while "Gadzooks-ing" his way across London the next.
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This was a really fun book, you could see the answer to the "mystery" a mile away, but it was still a fun ride.
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Oct 23, 2010
Rebekah
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Feb 06, 2013
Vesra (When She Reads)
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Jan 26, 2015
Cora
marked it as tbr-on-hand
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