by Baroness Orczy · VICENS VIVES (PRECIO FIJO) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788853003294
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«The Scarlet Pimpernel» is the adventure novel by Baroness Orczy, published by Vicens Vives in paperback (112 pages, in English).
During the French Revolution, a mysterious man known as the Scarlet Pimpernel saves condemned aristocrats from the guillotine. All Paris wants to know who he is. While the French agent Chauvelin swears to uncover him, the hero keeps outwitting his pursuers with cunning.
It belongs to the The Scarlet Pimpernel series and the Black Cat Reading & Training collection, with audio CD and exercises aimed at the PET (B1) and Trinity exams.
Aimed at elementary-level students of English as a foreign language, especially those in secondary school preparing for official certificates.
Baroness Emma Magdalena Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci, usually known as Baroness Orczy, was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. She is best known for her series of novels featuring The Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save French aristocrats from "Madame Guillotine" during the French Revolution, establishing the "hero with a secret identity" in popular culture.
