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Title: The Vilest Betrayal
Fandom: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Rating: XXX (smut!fic)
Word count: 8, 048
Description: Marguerite x Sir Andrew! Set during the first novel, somewhere between the chapters 'Calais' and 'The Escape'
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The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy


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Day four: Favourite book of your favourite series

Eldorado by Baroness Orczy

The first and titular novel is the obvious choice from the Scarlet Pimpernel series, but honestly, there is a reason why the Baroness' debut novel was rejected by so many publishers before Fred Terry and Julia Neilson staged TSP as a play. The ingredients are all there - ( Read more... )

Day three: Your favourite series

A hard choice. Also, exactly how many books maketh a 'series'? Are three books a trilogy only, or does that also constitute a series? Anyway. I have nearly all of the Nero Wolfe 'corpus' by Rex Stout, though I haven't read most of them above once in two years, I'm still working my way through the Inspector Rutledge ( Read more... )

Oh, dear. A discussion on the IMDb message board for Emma (2009) lead to an Austen fan posting this link to austenblog.com. Basically, when the BBC miniseries first aired last October, those venerable self-styled critics who have read all the novels and seen all the previous adaptations and thus consider themselves experts in the Austen field hated ( Read more... )

'Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people'. The tagline to 'The Painted Veil', with Edward Norton and Naomi Watts, hooked me, and although I got little else out of watching 'Amazing Grace' on DVD, the trailer before the 'feature presentation' inspired me to rent this DVD and buy a copy of the book it was based on. ( Read more... )