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Very Exciting
This book had thrills all the way through it. It was a very enjoyable read. It is full of irony and suspence. A very enjoyable book. I would recomend this to anyone who likes adventure romances. ... Read more

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The Terror has begun. Paris, 1792. Each day scores of the French nobility feed the guillotine. They are trapped in the capital. There is no escape. But rumours whisper of a league of young English gentleman of unparalleled daring who are risking their lives to spirit aristocrats across the Channel. They leave no trace behind them except a note from the 'Scarlet Pimpernel'. The ruthless spy master Chauvelin is determined to stop the rescuers by fair means or foul, and, desperately outnumbered, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his men must use all their wits to evade capture and stay alive. ... Read more

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Super Reader
Set in France, the Scarlet Pimpernel is a pro royal, or at least anti-guillotine proto superhero, who leads the followers of Robespierre a merry dance as her rescues plenty of people from their fate.

He has his friends and helpers, this dashing Englishman, and it is through them that the French try and discover his identity. ... Read more

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The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel. please visit www.valdebooks.com for a full list of titles ... Read more

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It was not, Heaven help us all! a very uncommon occurrence these days: a woman almost unsexed by misery, starvation, and the abnormal excitement engendered by daily spectacles of revenge and of cruelty. They were to be met with every day, round every street corner, these harridans, more terrible far than were the men. ... Read more

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A surging seething murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. ... Read more

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A surgingseethingmurmuring crowd of beings that are human only in namefor to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creaturesanimated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. ... Read more

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Subtitled "A Story of the Hundred Days" and first published in 1915,this story was also published seriallly under the title "Waterloo". ... Read more

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Eldorado, by Baroness Orczy is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of the original book.
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"Tell Margarite, that by dying for Armand, I'm giving my life for her"
I have read most of The Pimpernel Sequels along with the original, which was an exciting read.I must admit that many of the sequels pale in quality, and there are some stories that are almost identical but with different character names.I thought that the author might have lost her inspiration later on...But this wasn't the case with EL DORADO, which I found it as exciting (if not more) as the original novel.

***SPOILER ALERT~ DON'T READ IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF!!!***

The story starts off slow because we don't get to see our hero until many chapters later.At first, it focuses more on Armand (Margarite's brother and our hero's brother-in-law).Armand's back in France, and making so many careless mistakes, one must wonder how could he be part of such a daring group.Then, he falls in love, and that in itself doesn't make sense:how can you fall in love just like that, while getting ready for a death-daring mission?Tragically though, Armand's low IQ was just the beginning of trouble.

Soon, we find out that Percy and his friends are preparing the most dangerous mission ever:to rescue the Dauphin, son of the late King of France, from prison and from death.But through Armand's careless disobedience, he puts the entire league in danger, and he continues to get himself into more trouble, forcing Percy to halt his escape, in order to go get his brother-in-law out of Paris.It is here that Percy tells his best friend:
"Go tell Margarite, that by giving my life for Armand, I'm giving it for her"

As it follows, Percy rescues Armand's lover, but Armand didn't know it.He thought she was still held in prison, so he bargains with Percy's enemy instead:He helps Chauvelin capture the Scarlet Pimpernel in exchange for the freedom of a woman he barely knows.This truth was the crux of this novel.Percy realizes he was betrayed the very moment he is captured.

In EL DORADO, we see a suffering Percy as never seen in other sequels.Yes, he's 'tortured' inside the prison (not in the way you'd expect though). We feel for him, and we cry along with Margarite for him.But he's more tormented for the pain he's inflicting on Margarite than all the external discomforts he was going through.Still, tormented as he was, he felt he was better off than the 'betrayer.'He knew that Armand was a walking dead now, guilt-ridden and desperate.And knowing that he himself might die, he wants Armand to be there for Margarite.Thus, not only does he forgive Armand, he makes sure to encourage him and makes provisions for him, 'ordering' him never to let Margarite suspect any of this awful truth.

I love this sequel because Percy comes out pretty often, and we get a glimpse of his inner thoughts and feelings.And OH~ I love how Percy is portrayed in here!~ He's strong, super smart, intuitive, sensitive, handsome, tall, funny, rich...and moreover, he's passionate, compassionate, deep, HUMBLE.My only complain of him is that he's way too perfect to be true.He's super-human.

Not half as good as original
El Dorado was a bit disappointing. I am an avid fan of The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, and the qualities of that book that made it so original, memborable and endearing are practically non-existent in this book. Armand is an extremely weak character and Marguerite seems to have lost her sparkling intelligence. It is still a fun read, but don't expect it to be as good as The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Percy just keeps getting more awesome by the minute.
I loved this book! I really enjoyed the first book in the series but I have to admit I liked this one better because there's more action and you get to see more of the inner-workings of the League of the Scarlet pimpernel. It's not too long just 341 pages and you'll fly right through it. I couldn't be more glad I picked up this book.

Yet another Christmas gift
This is a gift for a friend's daughter but I'm sure she will enjoy it immensely.The book arrived in excellent condition.Merry CHRISTmas!

Super Reader
Another fun Scarlet Pimpernel romp. A friend of Percy's, has his head turned by yet another French actress (this one is not of the sneaky sort), and says some things that he shouldn't.

Throw in a dodgy Austrian baron, and Chauvelin, and the rescue of a young French monarch, and you have your adventure.

Because of his foolish friend Percy himself is captured, because Chauvelin wants him to reveal where the young French blueblood is being hidden, so that they can do some more chopping off of heads. ... Read more

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Includes 8 classics by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. Indexed for easy navigation. Works of Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Includes:
CASTLES IN THE AIR
EL DORADO
THE ELUSIVE PIMPERNEL
I WILL REPAY
THE LEAGUE OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
THE NEST OF THE SPARROWHAWK
THE OLD MAN IN THE CORNER
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Whoever loves a fight, first and last, will like the Baroness Orczy's latest story, The Laughing Cavalier, for all the male characters, good, bad, and indifferent, are fighting hard when they are not making love. This is supposed to be the adventure of an ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel; but whether it is or not is of small moment. What counts is that there is a desperate villain who abducts the lovely daughter of a rich Haarlem merchant and a gallant swordsman who always comes to the maid's rescue in the nick of time.
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This Halcyon Classics ebook contains nineteen novels by British author the Baroness Emmuska Orczy, including 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' and eight of its sequels in series order.Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.

Scarlet Pimpernel Series:

The Laughing Cavalier
The First Sir Percy
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
I Will Repay
The Elusive Pimpernel
Lord Tony’s Wife
El Dorado, An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel
The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel


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The Emperor’s Candlesticks
A Bride of the Plains
The Bronze Eagle
Castles in the Air
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk
The Old Man in the Corner
Unto Caesar
Beau Brocade
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
The Man in Grey
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Contains some hard to find Scarlet Pimpernel works
Contains many of the harder to find Scarlet Pimpernel works (Lord Tony's Wife, The Laughin Cavalier, The First Sir Percy)for just $.99. Still searching for free/.99 of Sir Percy Leads the Band, The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Hits Back, & A Child of the Revolution. No 'Table of Contents' per se, but the 'Beginning of Book' has linkable titles for the various stories.

Contains in order:
The Laughing Cavalier
The First Sir Percy
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
I Will Repay
The Elisive Pimpernel
Lord Tony's Wife
El Dorado, An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel
The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Other Works:
The Emperor's Candlesticks
A Bride of the Plains
The Bronze Eagle
Castles in the Air
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk
The Old Man in the Corner
Unto Caesar
Bau Brocade
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
The Man in Gray ... Read more

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In the title story, a young matron from a convalescent home is found dead in a quiet Maida Vale street. The Daily Telegraph ran an article headed 'Murder or Suicide?' on the subject of the mysterious death. In The Hocussing of Cigarette an earl's racehorse is the victim of attempted poisoning. Who Stole the Black Diamonds? concerns a mystery that bewilders police and diplomats across Europe. All of the twelve detective stories in this volume are puzzled over by Orczy's mysterious armchair detective, the old man in the corner. ... Read more

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"I scented a mystery," said the old man
A young lady journalist has cryptic encounters with a scarecrow of an old man in a London teashop. With his bony fingers he knots and unknots a piece of string, sitting quietly in a corner while unmasking a murderer or a thief in one unsolved crime after another.

Each explanation makes a short story in this collection by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905.

This is the first of three collections featuring the old man in the corner. He and the lady journalist are nameless here, but in the later books acquire the names Bill Owen and Polly Burton.

The stories are brainteasers. We don't get emotionally involved with the characters. We only know what evidence says about them, as reported by the old man. A haunter of inquests and voracious reader of newspapers, the man in the corner knows all the relevant facts.

The stories are varied. Two boys open some abandoned parcels and find the dismembered remains of a corpse. An Italian count wins a wealthy bride and disappears. The dead accuse the living of a crime. Fake jewels replace real. A lord gets away with murder...

A curious feature is that the old man in the corner never shares his deductions with the police. He's more interested in astonishing Polly, and ordering his second cheesecake, than seeing justice done. He rather admires creative criminals - and forgives people who murder by accident.

Baroness Orczy was most famous for writing The Scarlet Pimpernel. But her man in the corner deserves respect. He was the first armchair detective - and immensely popular with contemporary readers.

I prefer more character development in my stories. But these are clever. And the easy elegance of the prose is remarkable for a native of Hungary who only learned English in her teens. ... Read more

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The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Elusive Pimpernel
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
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Armand St Just, his beautiful sister Marguerite and her husband Sir Percy Blakeney are once again caught up in the turmoil of revolutionary France. And adventurer Baron de Batz enters the story. It is 1794 and Paris, 'despite the horrors that had stained her walls - had remained a city of pleasure, and the knife of the guillotine did scarce descend more often than did the drop-scenes on the stage.' ... Read more

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Lacking only a tinkling piano and a damsel tied to the tracks...
Everyone who has read the first three books in Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel series will know what to expect in ELDORADO, the fourth installment of the Pimpernel's adventures rescuing innocent folk from the guillotine in the French First Republic in the waning years of the 18th century.As in the earlier books, we find the evil leaders of the Revolution imposing a harsher and more deadly rule on the people of France than the deposed monarch ever did.We find Sir Percy Blakeney and his English accomplices skulking through the alleys of Paris in disguise, bent on spiriting "aristos" and "suspects of treason against the Republic" out of France to the safety of England--and thumbing their noses at the Revolutionary government in the process.We find Lady Blakeney ever more madly in love with her multifaceted husband, who can be an effete dandy in an English drawing room one day and a consummate master of disguise in France the next evening.

As with her other novels, Orczy has written a gripping story of intrigue, betrayal, capture, and miraculous escape.ELDORADO is a fun read, but it is also a superficial one.All of the interest lies in the development of the plot.The characters remain their usual, flat, undeveloped selves; their actions, their emotions, and their thoughts remain predictable.The leading characters are, in fact, exaggerated stereotypes: Sir Percy of the bold, imperturbable, and unconquerable adventurer who does much good for others in the course of his adventures; Lady Blakeney of the adoring wife whose feminine weaknesses sooner or later require her husband's intercession to rescue her from the clutches of the villains; and Monsieur Chauvelin of the unrepentant, revenge-seeking villain.Come to think of it, with characters such as these, ELDORADO lacks only a tinkling piano and a railroad track to be a first class melodrama.

Orczy's writing is in no way inspirational.Her descriptions of scenes read much like the directions for the settings of stage plays.The dialogs of her characters are highly repetitious at times.To achieve that "1790s effect," she throws in a few archaic words now and then, things such as "decatombs" and "lanthorns"; unfortunately, she uses the very same archaic terms in all of her novels, and the reader tends to become a bit bored with their frequent recurrence.The range of Orczy's vocabulary, while quite adequate for an adventure novel, is hardly inexhaustible, and reading all of her Pimpernel novels does expose one to much linguistic repetition.

The recurring theme of feminine frailty is alive and well in ELDORADO.While we do have a new twist in that it is one of the Pimpernel's men who intentionally betrays him to Chauvelin, that betrayal results from the man's blinding love for Mlle. Lange, who is thus portrayed as the unwitting cause of all the ensuing troubles.Furthermore, as in an earlier novel, Lady Blakeney goes herself to France and again requires rescue by Sir Percy.

While the strength of the novel lies entirely in its plot, one thing in particular challenges my credulity.During his imprisonment, Sir Percy is as closely guarded and watched as was Marie Antoinette before she was led to the guillotine.How our hero manages to write three different secret letters to his wife and comrades without Chauvelin noticing the missing sheets of paper is nothing short of miraculous.

I also remain curious as to the title. "El Dorado," of course, refers to aland of jewels, silver, gold, and other riches.There are several possible "riches" in this novel: the safety and beauty of England to which our adventurers must try to escape, the glory of true love between Sir Percy and Marguerite, the esteem in which Sir Percy holds his honor, perhaps even the sense of adventure which Sir Percy shares with the Spanish Conquistadores who sought "El Dorado" in the New World.Perhaps it alludes to the glory of freedom to which Sir Percy aspires from his dank, claustrophobic prison cell. Nonetheless, the full significance of the title continues to elude me.

Inasmuch as ELDORADO is characterized by recurring themes, recurring characters and recurring dialog, why have I given it four stars?As we've noticed, it does have a new plot twist, but mainly it's just a rollicking read.How can Sir Percy possibly escape this time?How can he save himself when Chauvelin holds the lives of his wife and his brother-in-law hostage?Is this the end?Will the Mountie rescue the damsel from the railroad track before the racing train is upon her?(Oh, sorry.That was from a different melodrama.)Come to Orczy's novel wanting to be entertained by an adventurous swashbuckler who defies death in near-impossible situations, and you'll find your reading time well spent.Come seeking any other outcome, and you may be disappointed.

The passions of the weak that traps the strong
So far I have read "The Scarlet Pimpernel," "The Elusive Pimpernel" and I had just finished "El Dorado."This last book wounded me emotionally so much I'm still hurting.

I had watched Jane Seymoure's version(1982) of the movie before so I had an idea of the plot.I knew Armand would be the cause of our hero's troubles but I didn't know it was going to be such a near death experience... The price Percy had to pay for Armand's folly was just too much.

SPOILER ALERT!!!
I was spell-bound by Percy's attitude through-out...he was a visionary but he was realistic enough to accept that 'mayhaps'...Chauvelin would win tis time.So he told Sir Andrews before going back to Paris: <>

But then, I was horrified when I understood the depth of Armand's folly.In the movie, he was just impulsively stupid.The book reveals a much darker truth...so terrible that Percy had to try hard to conceal it from Margarite.He forgave Armand for Margarite's sake, but if she knew...she would hate her brother for life, and that Percy had to keep from happening (since if he died, Margarite would have no one left but Armand).

And the comment the impulsive brother-in-law threw at Percy:"You do not know what love is!"This comment hit Percy so hard that he not only agrees with Armand but he mentions it several times after:"We both agreed that I do not know what love is."That's what he says, but his actions speak otherwise.

As for Armand, his way of loving is too selfish, impulsive and inmature.I wonder who was the one who really "didn't know..."

A romping good adventure!
I've read about half of the Scarlet Pimpernel books, and this one is definitely my favorite thus far. I won't rehash the plot as others said it well here. Briefly, SP must save the Dauphin from the clutches of Robespierre and Chauvelin. Armand has to choose between his honor and his heart, and he chooses, forcing SP to clean up the mess, at great physical cost to himself. There was interesting character development for Armand, and I also liked the scenes with Sir Tony, who is my favorite of the peripheral characters. If you've seen the SP production with Anthony Andrew and Jane Seymour, part of the plot is taken from this book. Try it out! It's a romping good adventure, and not as lackluster or meandering as some of her other titles.

Excellent sequel
If you enjoyed The Scarlet Pimpernel, it's worth the effort to try to dig up a copy of the sequel.

Percy and the League try to smuggle the Dauphin out of France, which is complicated when Armand becomes disobedient after falling in love.I won't ruin what happens to Percy (if you look at other reviews they say), but it puts the Scarlet Pimpernel through a pretty bad ordeal.

This one is faster paced than The Scarlet Pimpernel, but it's still a little slow in the beginning.Once you hit the second part, though, it really speeds up.The scenes between Marguerite and Percy are great.I can't recommend this book enough.I read it in about three days (which would have been two if I wasn't falling asleep after staying up until 2 in the morning to try to finish it!)

However, getting hold of a copy is much harder than the original.Bucaneer Books does have a hard-cover copy in print, but parts of it are abridged.I would recommend either trying to find a used copy, getting a copy from the library, or importing a copy from the UK (I belive that edition is unabridged, although I'm not positive).But this book is worth the hassle it might take to get it.

The Pimpernel at his very best!
Determined to save the young Prince Louis, heir to the throne of France, Percy and the league embark upon their most dangerous adventure yet.Everything goes well until Armand, struck by Cupid's arrow, disobeys orders to try and help his ladylove, landing Percy right in Chauvlin's hands.Will he escape from the darkest cells of the Conciergre?Will he be able to save the Dauphin?Wait and see!

This is my favorite of all the Pimpernel books.With its numerous plot twists and suprise ending, this is one of my favorite books altogether.Not to mention it has some great scenes between Percy and Marguerite as Percy is being tortured (yes!Tortured!) in prison.I sobbed miserably during that part.Of course, you'll proably end up hating Armand for the rest of your life, but that's a small price to pay for such a marvelous story! ... Read more