The Scarlet Pimpernel - Five Adventures

Five full books collected in one edition.
Contents:
1. The Scarlet Pimpernel,
2. I Will Repay,
3. The Elusive Pimernel,
4. El Dorado,
5. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

About the Author
Baroness Emma Orczy [1865-1947] was born in Hungary. In 1880, the Orczy family moved to London. Emma attended Heatherley's School of Fine Art. There, she met Montague MacLean Barstow, a young illustrator. They married in 1894. She worked with her husband as a translator and an illustrator. In 1899, she started writing soon after the birth of her son. In 1903, she and her husband wrote a play whose protagonist, Sir Percy Blakeney—The Scarlet Pimpernel rescued French aristocrats from the French revolution. She published a novelization of the story. The play ran four years. Its success spurred enormous sales of the novel. She wrote more than a dozen other Pimpernel books of which the first, I Will Repay (1906), was the most popular. The last Pimpernel book was Mam'zelle Guillotine (1940). She eventually purchased an estate in Monte Carlo from her books' successes.