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La primula rossa è un ciclo di romanzi d’avventura pubblicati in fascicoli. Il primo romanzo, La primula rossa, uscì in volume nel 1905. Le vicende del ciclo sono ambientate nel periodo della rivoluzione francese, durante il regime del Terrore. Nei romanzi, un personaggio enigmatico, detto appunto la Primula Roosa, a capo di una lega di inglesi, aiuta la fuga di molte famiglie aristocratiche che rischiavano la vita.

Trains have always held a special place for most of us. We’re intrigued by the mere fact that we can sit down in one place and arrive in another and enjoy the adventure and time in between. In this volume we explore both the journeys and the workers who run and maintain the railway network.

The first and most successful in the Baroness's series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel "has almost reached its first centenary, and it is as vivid and appealing as ever because the plotting is perfect. It is a classic example of how to construct, pace, and conclude a plot. . . . To rise on the crest of laughter without capsizing, to survive being written, ...

C'EST PARCE QU'ILS PENSENT AUTREMENT QU'IL RESOLVENT L'INSOLUBLE... Ce recueil présente une sélection de brillantes enquêtes menées par de singuliers détectives.