Friday Explorations Read-Aloud: “The Scarlet Pimpernel” by Baroness Orczy скачать в хорошем качестве

Friday Explorations Read-Aloud: “The Scarlet Pimpernel” by Baroness Orczy

Every Friday, at 11:00 am, on the library’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Page, the library will stream a brand new recording of local thespian, Joseph Coté reading aloud selections from a wide variety of fascinating and entertaining books of fiction and non-fiction. For February 13, Coté will read aloud from Baroness Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel. A timeless novel of adventure, intrigue, and romance is sparked by one man’s defiance in the face of authority… The year is 1792. The French Revolution, driven to excess by its own triumph, has turned into a reign of terror. Daily, tumbrels bearing new victims to the guillotine roll over the cobbled streets of Paris.… Thus the stage is set for one of the most enthralling novels of historical adventure ever written. The mysterious figure known as the Scarlet Pimpernel, sworn to rescue helpless men, women, and children from their doom; his implacable foe, the French agent Chauvelin, relentlessly hunting him down; and lovely Marguerite Blakeney, a beautiful French exile married to an English lord and caught in a terrible conflict of loyalties—all play their parts in a suspenseful tale that ranges from the squalid slums of Paris to the aristocratic salons of London, from intrigue on a great English country estate to the final denouement on the cliffs of the French coast. Thoughts to share? Book ideas to suggest? Contact Joseph at friday-explorations@usa.net