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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A single red flower is left behind. Another prisoner has vanished before the guillotine can fall. In The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy transforms the turmoil of the French Revolution into a dazzling tale of secret identities, desperate rescues...

Harry Sandwith, a Westminster boy, becomes a resident at the chateau of a French marquis. After various adventures he accompanies the family to Paris at the height of the French Revolution. Imprisonment and death reduce their number, and Harry finds himself beset by perils with the three young daughters of the house in his charge. After narrow escapes they reach Nantes. There the girls are condemned to death in the coffin ships, but are saved by the unfailing courage of their young protector.