Sylvester: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

ISBN-13: 9780099465775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 352 str.

Georgette Heyer

Opis

The Duke of Salford posts into Wiltshire to discover if the Hon Phoebe Marlowe will meet his requirements for a bride. If he does not expect to meet a tongue-tied stripling wanting manners and conduct, he is intrigued when his visit causes Phoebe to flee.

Recenzje

My favourite historical novelist -- stylish, romantic, sharp, and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines are enterprising, and her heroes dashing. I owe her many happy hours. Margaret Drabble

O autorze

Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, who made the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of seventeen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.