Scarlet Pimpernel (Neeland Media LLC)

The Scarlet Pimpernel cemented Orczy's name in the literary world, and led to over a dozen sequels and countless television, film and musical reproductions. One such sequel is "The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel", which was published in 1919 and consists of eleven short stories about Sir Percy Blakeney and his exploits during the French Revolution. The stories are set in 1793 but are set in no particular order.

Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865-1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist whose noble Hungarian origins afforded her an idyllic childhood and extensive education in the arts at schools in Brussels, Paris and London. In 1903, with the success of a play written by Orczy and her husband based on one of her short stories about an English aristocrat, Orczy rewrote the story as a novel that drew huge sales. As a result, "The Scarlet Pimpernel" cemented Orczy's name in the literary world, and led to over a dozen sequels and countless television, film and musical reproductions. "The Elusive Pimpernel" is the fourth book in this series of novels featuring the cunning and valiant Pimpernel, a master of disguise and hero of the French Revolution. In this sequel, the French agent Chauvelin seeks revenge once and for all against the Pimpernel for the humiliations he has suffered. Literary thrill-seekers won't be disappointed with this racy and melodramatic story of romance and revenge.

The Scarlet Pimpernel cemented Orczy's name in the literary world, and led to over a dozen sequels and countless television, film and musical reproductions. "El Dorado", published in 1913, introduces several new names to the original cast of characters, and is noted as being the partial basis for most film adaptations of the original book. Sir Percy Blakeney, his wife Marguerite and her brother Armand St. Just meet the adventurous Baron de Batz in this captivating tale of deception, intrigue and revolution.