The Scarlet Pimpernel

A daring English rogue outwits the French Revolution's deadliest hunters.

They seek him here, they seek him there. As the guillotine devours the aristocracy of France, a mysterious Englishman known only by the sign of a small red flower spirits the condemned to safety — while the ruthless agent Chauvelin closes in on his secret. Baroness Orczy's immortal adventure of disguise, daring, and devotion invented the masked hero and has thrilled readers for over a century.