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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Emmuska Orczy · 1908
During the French Revolution, a secretive English league risks capture to rescue French aristocrats from the Terror. Lady Marguerite Blakeney is drawn into a web of disguise, divided loyalties, and daring crossings of the Channel.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 45 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
The Principal Figures and Their English Circle
Guards and Sailors of the Channel Crossing
The Tournay Family and Their English Hosts
A Table of ExilesAt the inn, the Tournays find safety and a promise of rescue.
A Conversation at Covent GardenChauvelin presses Marguerite during the opera interval.
The Fisherman's Rest
THE ENGLISH CHANNEL AND THE RESCUE ROUTE
THE WEST BARRICADE, PARISParis — flight and disguise at the city's western gate.
This edition
- Title
- The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Author
- Baroness Emmuska Orczy
- First published
- 1908
- Illustrated plates
- 117 original artworks · 45 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 31 · about 85,737 words
- Reading time
- 5 h 43 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- October 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
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