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The Scarlet Pimpernel

Emma Orczy
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93 pages • 3 hours read

Emma Orczy

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1905

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Summary

Background

Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Chapters 1-9

Chapters 10-19

Chapters 20-31

Character Analysis

Themes

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Important Quotes

Essay Topics

Essay Topics

1.

Why does Marguerite marry Sir Percy if she is brilliant and he seems foppishly inane?

2.

Explain why the Comtesse de Tournay publicly refuses to greet Marguerite. Is the comtesse justified in doing so?

3.

Give two reasons why the author portrays the French as primitive and the English as happy and virtuous.

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