Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker.
Anyone can play along by doing the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
“They seek him here, they seek him there /Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. /Is he in heaven or is he in hell? / that damned elusive Pimpernel.”
(~ The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emma Orczy, Kindle Edition, 1905)
[An absolute classic of historical fiction, I’ve seen it in theatre before actually reading it. The story is well known even though not everybody read the novel. It’s a pity, because Percy the Pimpernel predates many superheroes under disguise and it is a delight to read even now.]
PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays’ post, or share your ‘teasers’ in a comment here and/or in The Purple Booker.
Good teaser! I hadn’t thought about The Scarlet Pimpernel in a while.
Me too! I just ended up in a bookshop and it hooked me again 😀
Oh, how I loved these books when I was a teenager!
Thinking about it, that’s where my love for heist stories and daring escapades must have been born… 🙂
Same here, together with the undercover smart guy playing dumb 😀
It’s been a long time since I read this. Don’t remember much. Now I’m curious about to see if I’d enjoy it now.
My TT from Warning Light
If you have opportunity to read it again, let me know. I must say I enjoyed even more 🙂
It’s a proper blast from the past – I don’t like to think how many years ago I read this – but I do recall being very impressed with The Scarlet Man himself… A great teaser, Steph!
Yes, for me is sort of kid memory. I remember growing up with the Scarlet Pimpernel on the TV. Then I wanted the book… 😀