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The Scarlet Pimpernel By Baroness Orczy CHAPTER I PARIS: SEPTEMBER, 1792 A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity. During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that France had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity. The carnage had only ceased at this late hour of the day because there were other more interesting sights for the people to witness, a little while before the final clos |
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Reviewer: thomasarchived - 3/21/2007 19:10Subject: Good Job Karen Savage −−Very well read and good sense stress & modulation! |
Reviewer: crumit - 1/15/2009 14:20Subject: Great reading! This was a very enjoyable, professional sounding reading. Karen Savage has a crisp, expressive voice and really gives it her all. It's almost like having Merle Oberon reading it to you. (Odd−−none of the people I know from Waco sound like that...) I'm fairly new here, but The Scarlet Pimpernel is the best audiobook I've listened to on librivox so far. Thank you very much, Karen Savage! |
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Reviewer: David Sanchez - 5/27/2009 2:59 Subject: Wonderful reading! This is an excellent work. One of the best audiobooks I have ever read. Not only the story is very good, but also Karen Savage does a wonderful job, especially doing foreign French accent characterization. In fact, sometimes you feel there is more than one person reading the story. I was really delighted in hearing her to impersonate French people trying to speak English. |
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