Il tavolo del faraone
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Tradotto da: Anna Luisa Zazo
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La bella Deborah Grantham è una giovane donna intelligente che, per una serie di disgrazie finanziarie famigliari, si ritrova ad aiutare la zia a gestire una casa da gioco, tenendo in particolare il tavolo del faraone, un gioco di carte molto in voga. Ma ha un temperamento irrequieto che la spinge a comportamenti impulsivi; così, quando si rende conto della pessima reputazione che, per un equivoco, l’aristocratico Max Ravenscar – uomo facoltoso, arrogante e scaltro – si è fatto di lei, decide di sfidarlo, adottando atteggiamenti sempre più sfrontati…
- ISBN: 8898713932
- Casa Editrice: astoria
- Pagine: 272
- Data di uscita: 12-04-2018
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Flushed with success from my recent reread of Venetia , I cast caution to the wind and decided to take on another Georgette Heyer Regency novel. I should have known I wasn't mentally up for another contrived plot yet. Even Heyer's witty writing didn't save this one for me. Deborah Grantham is a 25 yea Leggi tutto
Update: I just reread this April 13-14th 2015 and it is every bit at good as the first time. Far fetched and comical, it was just the sort of book I needed. It had me laughing several times. :) Georgette Heyer has written silly, spoilt and ridiculous heroines, she has made witty, wize and winsome her Leggi tutto
I enjoyed it more the first time (I remember I simply couldn't sit calmly from excitement and I read it in one day). Nonetheless, the second time it was also splendid fun. I loved how skillfully Heyer entwined the story around wonderful characters: Deb, Max, Arabella, Adrian, Pheobe, Lady Bellingham, Leggi tutto
I can't justify my liking for Faro's Daughter : the hero is 100% an asshole, the heroine makes all kinds of questionable decisions, and there would be no plot if our leading couple could have had even ONE civil and honest conversation. And yet. I keep reaching for this one every couple years, and I e Leggi tutto
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