Ready Reference Treatise: The Scarlet Pimpernel

By Raja Sharma

“The Scarlet Pimpernel” by Emma Orczy is a play and adventure novel. The play was first launched on 5th January 1905. The story is set after the beginning of the French Revolution, during the Reign of Terror.

Sir Percy Blakeney is the title character. He happens to be a very rich English fop. He becomes a very formidable swordsman and an expert escape artist. He is the one who rescues several French noblemen from the French tribunal and the fury of the masses in Paris.

Ready Reference Treatise: The Scarlet Pimpernel
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Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Plot Overview
Chapter Three: Major Characters
Chapter Four: Complete Summary
Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Oct 31, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311244789

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Ready Reference Treatise: The Scarlet Pimpernel

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Chapter One: Introduction

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emma Orczy is a play and adventure novel. The play was first launched on 5th January 1905. The story is set after the beginning of the French Revolution, during the Reign of Terror.

Sir Percy Blakeney is the title character. He happens to be a very rich English fop. He becomes a very formidable swordsman and an expert escape artist. He is the one who rescues several French noblemen from the French tribunal and the fury of the masses in Paris.

When the play first opened at the New Theatre in London’s West End, it immediately became a favorite of the British audiences.

It ran for more than two thousand performances and became one of the most popular plays ever performed in England.

The author had completed the writing of the book in the year 1903, but it was initially rejected by all the publishers of the time. The author was not deterred and she reinvented the novel as a play. Eventually, the play was highly successful. Finally, it got published as a book in the year 1905.

The novel version of the play was also an immediate success. The author got relieved of her financial troubles, but the critics were not so pleased. They found the novel superficial, classist, and a little more than a disposable lark. They did not present positive views.

The noble class of the society liked the novel and they demanded more books of the similar type, which led the author to write a series of Pimpernel stories over the next forty years.

The other novels in the