Emma Orczy (sword), ability to out-think and outwit his adversaries, and a calling card (he leaves behind a scarlet pimpernel at each of his interventions). By drawing attention to his alter ego Blakeney he hides behind his public face as a slow thinking foppish playboy (like Bruce Wayne), and he also establishes a network of supporters, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, that aid his endeavours. Orczy went on to write over a dozen sequels featuring Sir Percy Blakeney, his family, and the other members of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, of which the first, "I Will Repay" (1906), was the
The Horse and His Boy in the series. Like the other novels in "The Chronicles of Narnia", it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes; her work has been retained in many later editions. "The Horse and His Boy" is the only novel within "The Chronicles of Narnia" that features children from the imagined world of Narnia (rather than English characters) as the main characters. It is also the only novel within "The Chronicles of Narnia" that takes place entirely in the fictional Narnian world. The novel is set in the period covered by the last chapter of "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" (which was