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Lord Tony's Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Lord Tony's Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel

by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness, 1865-1947

BookID: 35117

Language:English

LoC No.:18000521

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 78.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

Historical fictionFrance -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- FictionAdventure storiesBritish -- France -- Fiction

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"Lord Tony's Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Orczy is a novel published in 1917. This sequel to "The Scarlet Pimpernel" follows Pierre Adet, a French peasant who assaults an aristocrat's daughter in 1789 and later seeks revenge by assuming a false identity in England. Years later, he manipulates his way into marrying Yvonne de Kernogan to lure her to France and the guillotine. When she elopes with Lord Antony Dewhurst instead, Adet kidnaps her, forcing Lord Tony to seek help from the legendary Scarlet Pimpernel. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Class:PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

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