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With the stage debut of The Scarlet Pimpernel (1903), the Baroness
Orczy invented the "masked avenger" genre of fiction--the
swashbuckling hero of dual identity. Her progeny include Zorro,
Superman, The Lone Ranger and many others. The Baroness's Pimpernel
is a British fop who, in a play and series of popular novels,
daringly spirited condemned innocents out of France during the
Reign of Terror. Hugh Laurie, best known Stateside as the foppish
Bertie Wooster in TV's "Wooster and Jeeves," plunges into these two
adventures with childlike relish. Yes, he is corny; yes, he
overdoes it; but irresistibly. That's what this fare is made for.
As he reads, one pictures, not the dashing Leslie Howard, cinema's
Pimpernel, but a little boy performing for the family behind his
homemade puppet theater. Sorry, Baroness, I know this isn't what
you had in mind, but it's far better. Y.R. An AudioFile Earphones
Award winner. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers
to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
?Arguably the best adventure story ever published and certainly the
most influential that appeared during the early decades of the
twentieth century.??Gary Hoppenstand
From the Trade Paperback edition. --This text refers to
the Hardcover
edition.
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