
audiobook
by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy
In the fevered streets of Nantes, 1789, the air crackles with the roar of angry peasants ready to strike at the chateau of the oppressive Duke of Kernogan. A charismatic agitator named Pierre rallies the villagers, turning a simple dispute over trapped pigeons into a full‑blown call for vengeance against the aristocracy. The tension builds as the townsfolk prepare a night‑time raid, their resolve hardened by years of exploitation and a desperate yearning for justice.
Amid this brewing storm, a mysterious Englishman known only as the Scarlet Pimpernel slips into the turmoil, his daring reputation preceding him. He becomes entangled with the duke’s beautiful wife, whose fate hangs in the balance as the rebels close in. Listeners will be drawn into a whirlwind of intrigue, daring disguises, and the clash between revolutionary zeal and the secret heroism that seeks to protect the innocent.
Language
en
Duration
~8 hours (502K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Brenda Lewis, Carla Foust, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
Release date
2011-01-30
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1865–1947
Best known for creating the masked hero of The Scarlet Pimpernel, this Hungarian-born British writer helped shape the adventure and mystery stories readers still love today. Her fiction mixed romance, danger, and quick wit in a way that made it hugely popular in the early 1900s.
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