The Scarlet Pimpernel
by Emma Orczy · first published 1900
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The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) is a play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution.
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>Sir Percy Hits Back - Baroness Orczy That reminds me of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" - one of my favorite novels from school curriculum. Read it a few times after too. Didn't much like the sequels though.
on “Welcoming 1927 to the Public Domain” ↗…long time. In my mind, the "canon" version is now Man of La Mancha which, as the article notes, "could not be more distant" from the original. I find the same has happened with The Secret Garden and The Scarlet Pimpernel. I'm not immediately convinced that Don Quixote is a more effective manual for living than other classic works of literature, but it's interesting enough to make me consider a reread. I'm sure it would…
on ““Don Quixote” as a manual for living” ↗