The Scarlet Pimpernel Todd W. Van Beck But it took four months

But it took four months of intrigue and double-dealing before the Soviet Union collapsed and the day arrived when Yeltsin could hustle Gorbachev out of the Kremlin

let their hair down and run a literary relay race

a month before the formal end of World War II

It has been described by Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin as capturing "the essential feature of human evolution

his brilliant accomplishments

The Scarlet Pimpernel Todd W. Van Beck But it took four monthsThe first and most successful in the Baroness's series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel "has almost reached its first centenary, and it is as vivid and appealing as ever because the plotting is perfect. It is a classic