The Scarlet Pimpernel

That Book was BONKERS

English - September 15, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 49 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
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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