The Scarlet Pimpernel & Sir Percy Leads the Band (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Historical Action-Adventure NovelsBy Emma Orczy
Length19h 57m
About this audiobook
The Scarlet Pimpernel & Sir Percy Leads the Band brings together two adventures of Sir Percy Blakeney, the foppish English aristocrat whose frivolous mask conceals the daring rescuer of victims of the French Revolution. Orczy's prose blends melodrama, romance, political suspense, and theatrical irony, placing drawing-room wit beside prison-cell peril. Within the tradition of historical adventure fiction, these tales helped define the masked-hero archetype, uniting chivalric rescue with modern espionage and disguise. Emma Orczy, born in Hungary and later resident in Britain, wrote with the imaginative perspective of an émigrée attuned to revolution, exile, class anxiety, and national identity. Her aristocratic background and fascination with performance shaped Sir Percy's double life: a social comedy of manners on the surface, and beneath it a counter-revolutionary drama of courage, loyalty, and moral conviction. This volume is recommended for readers interested in classic adventure, historical romance, and the origins of the secret-identity hero. Those who admire swift plotting, elegant deception, and moral spectacle will find Orczy's work both entertaining and culturally significant, a vivid example of popular fiction that continues to influence modern heroic narratives.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, Action and Adventure
Length19 hrs 57 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 12, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel & Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Author Biography
4Historical Context
5Synopsis (Selection)
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6CHAPTER I PARIS: SEPTEMBER, 1792
7CHAPTER II DOVER: "THE FISHERMAN'S REST"
8CHAPTER III THE REFUGEES
9CHAPTER IV THE LEAGUE OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
10CHAPTER V MARGUERITE
11CHAPTER VI AN EXQUISITE OF '92
12CHAPTER VII THE SECRET ORCHARD
13CHAPTER VIII THE ACCREDITED AGENT
14CHAPTER IX THE OUTRAGE
15CHAPTER X IN THE OPERA BOX
16CHAPTER XI LORD GRENVILLE'S BALL
17CHAPTER XII THE SCRAP OF PAPER
18CHAPTER XIII EITHER — OR?
19CHAPTER XIV ONE O'CLOCK PRECISELY!
20CHAPTER XV DOUBT
21CHAPTER XVI RICHMOND
22CHAPTER XVII FAREWELL
23CHAPTER XVIII THE MYSTERIOUS DEVICE
24CHAPTER XIX THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
25CHAPTER XX THE FRIEND
26CHAPTER XXI SUSPENSE
27CHAPTER XXII CALAIS
28CHAPTER XXIII HOPE
29CHAPTER XXIV THE DEATH-TRAP
30CHAPTER XXV THE EAGLE AND THE FOX
31CHAPTER XXVI THE JEW
32CHAPTER XXVII ON THE TRACK
33CHAPTER XXVIII THE PERE BLANCHARD'S HUT
34CHAPTER XXIX TRAPPED
35CHAPTER XXX THE SCHOONER
36CHAPTER XXXI THE ESCAPE
37Sir Percy Leads the Band
38BOOK I THE ABBÉ
39CHAPTER ONE The King on His Trial
40CHAPTER TWO Sentence
41CHAPTER THREE The League
42CHAPTER FOUR January Twenty-first
43CHAPTER FIVE The Levets of Choisy
44CHAPTER SIX News
45CHAPTER SEVEN Monsieur le Professeur
46CHAPTER EIGHT Maurin the Lawyer
47CHAPTER NINE Orders from the Chief
48CHAPTER TEN The Abbé Edgeworth
49CHAPTER ELEVEN The Morning After
50CHAPTER TWELVE A False Move
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