The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
About this book
It was not, Heaven help us all! a very uncommon occurrence these days: a woman almost unsexed by misery, starvation, and the abnormal excitement engendered by daily spectacles of revenge and of cruelty. They were to be met with every day, round every street corner, these harridans, more terrible far than were the men.
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Classic LiteratureFictionHistorySir Blakeney, Percy (Fictitious character)BritishFiction, action & adventureFiction, historicalFrance, history, revolution, 1789-1799, fictionBlakeney, percy, sir (fictitious character), fictionFrance, fictionFiction, historical, generalHistorical FictionEnglish literatureFiction, generalFrance -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- FictionAdventure storiesBritish -- France -- FictionBlakeney, Percy, Sir (Fictitious character) -- Fiction