{"product_id":"the-scarlet-pimpernel-9780198791225","title":"The Scarlet Pimpernel","description":"Sir Percy Blakeney lives a double life in the England of 1792: at home he is an idle fop and a leader of fashion, but abroad he is the Scarlet Pimpernel, a master of disguise who saves aristocrats from the guillotine. When the revolutionary French state seeks to unmask him, Percy's estranged, independent wife, Marguerite, unwittingly sets their agent on her husband's track. Percy's escapades, and Marguerite's daring journey to France to save him from the guillotine, keep the reader turning the pages of Baroness Orczy's well-paced romantic adventure. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten in just five weeks in 1903, Baroness Emma Orczy's bestseller has been the basis of multiple adaptations. Rooted in the upheaval of Orczy's Hungarian childhood, and in the anxious nationalism of turn-of-the-century Britain, the story of the Scarlet Pimpernel provided a blueprint not only for subsequent historical swashbucklers, but for superheroes from Zorro to Superman. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition places \u003cem\u003eThe Scarlet Pimpernel\u003c\/em\u003e within the context of the elite and popular literature of the turn of the century. Orczy's novel is close in kin to such contemporary political thrillers as Joseph Conrad's \u003cem\u003eThe Secret Agent\u003c\/em\u003e (1907); tales that channeled contemporary concerns about refugees and enemies within.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNicholas Daly\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College Dublin. He has also taught at Trinity College Dublin, Wesleyan University, and Dartmouth College. A member of the Royal Irish Academy, he serves on the advisory boards of the \u003cem\u003eJournal of Victorian Culture, Novel\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eIrish University Review.\u003c\/em\u003e His academic publications include the monographs \u003cem\u003eModernism, Romance, and the Fin de Siecle\u003c\/em\u003e (CUP, 1999), \u003cem\u003eLiterature, Technology and Modernity\u003c\/em\u003e (CUP, 2004), \u003cem\u003eSensation and Modernity in the 1860s\u003c\/em\u003e (CUP, 2009), and \u003cem\u003eThe Demographic Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e (CUP, 2015), and many articles on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and culture.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50674727158034,"sku":"9780198791225","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0f29ed72-708a-44ee-893b-fca76c24e3ff.jpg?v=1733864482","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-scarlet-pimpernel-9780198791225","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}