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Thank you karen for a truly wonderful reading of a book i had not yet. The scarlet pimpernel was initially rejected by publishers, when orczy completed it in 1903. While i never read the book, i do remember seeing a black and white version of it when i was a child. Baroness orczy certainly gave us great entertainment with the character the scarlet pimpernel, becoming a series of books, this being the first and the best.
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