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The Scarlet Pimpernel
That Book was BONKERS
English - September 15, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 49 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture literature history books book review Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Off with their heads! This month we sympathized less with French aristocrats than author BARONESS Emmushka Orczy might wish. Blakeney is a himbo, Marguerite lives in the pretty people bubble, and Batman is fascist.
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* Lauren Willig, Secret history of the Pink Carnation
* Paula Volsky, Illusion
* Simon Schama, Citizens
* Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the Revolution (L’ancien Regime et la Revolution)
* Hilary Mantel’s, A Place of Greater Safety