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It is the story of Sterne's fictional travel through both countries, particularly France. Sterne made two trips within the continent, in 1762-64 and 1765-66, but the book is not about his errands, but those of parson Yorick's (a character in "Tristram Shandy"). With a less acid and outrageous humor than in his previous work, Sterne anyway mixes the picaresque with an ironic and, frequently, hilarious philosophical irony. Yorick begins by trying to...
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In this sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, the shadow of the guillotine draws nearer to the Dauphin, the young son of Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette, as the French Revolution rages on. Who can brave the hysterical and malevolent mobs and free the little prince but the mysterious Sir Percy Blakeney, also known as the Scarlet Pimpernel?
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