The Scarlet Pimpernel

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, dangerous loyalties, and love tested by betrayal.

France, 1792. While condemned aristocrats struggle to escape, a mysterious English adventurer repeatedly slips through the grasp of the revolutionary authorities. Known only as the Scarlet Pimpernel, this elusive hero leaves a small crimson flower as his signature.

Across the Channel, the fashionable Sir Percy Blakeney seems interested in little beyond extravagant clothes and idle conversation. His brilliant French wife, Marguerite, finds their marriage increasingly shadowed by misunderstanding. But when the calculating agent Chauvelin threatens someone she loves, she is drawn into a ruthless hunt for the Pimpernel's identity.

From glittering English drawing rooms to perilous roads along the French coast, every disguise could conceal an ally, every confidence could become a trap, and one wrong decision could cost several lives.

First published as a novel in 1905, Orczy's celebrated adventure helped popularize the masked-hero tradition. Its blend of political intrigue, daring escapes, romantic tension, and theatrical suspense continues to captivate listeners.

This AI-narrated edition is designed to offer a clear, polished listening experience, conveying the wit of the dialogue, the urgency of the pursuit, and the atmosphere of revolutionary France.

Who can be trusted when courage must wear a mask? Follow the crimson flower into one of historical adventure fiction's most irresistible mysteries. Start listening today!

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Lydbog: 28. oktober 2026