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La bella Deborah Grantham è una giovane donna intelligente e di buon carattere che, per una serie di rovesci finanziari famigliari, aiuta la svampita zia a gestire una casa da gioco, tenendo in particolare il tavolo del faraone, gioco di carte all'epoca molto in voga. Il suo temperamento focoso e passionale la spinge a comportamenti impulsivi e, quando si rende conto della pessima reputazione che, per un equivoco, l'aristocratico Max Ravenscar - uomo facoltoso, arrogante e altrettanto intelligente - si è fatto di lei, decide di sfidarlo senza esclusione di colpi, adottando atteggiamenti sempre più sfrontati e lasciandolo crogiolare nel suo fraintendimento. Due protagonisti degni della migliore Heyer si affrontano in questo libro mettendo in gioco tutta la loro umanità fatta di grandi pregi e indubbi difetti, fino alla tanto attesa e sospirata capitolazione finale. Altrettanto ben descritti sono i personaggi che accompagnano i protagonisti, dal cinico libertino consumato dai troppi vizi ai giovani e ingenui rampolli, uomini e donne, che affrontano la società e le sue ferree regole con passo incerto, reso un po' più sicuro solo dalla spavalderia della giovane età.
- 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
I've read this book (like most Heyers) countless times & if I had been rating books then, this one would have been around 3.5*. But now I'm a lot more fond of assertive heroines & while both leading characters are (very) prone to irrational actions, I'm looking at the original publication date. 1941 Leggi tutto
Scrumptious. I can't type it here, the Spoiler Stasi would waterboard me, but Z.O.M.G. this entire ending is the outside of enough! I pity the fool who doesn't indulge in the occasional Heyer. A diet of them would be akin to steamed pudding for breakfast, Queen of Puddings for lunch, and a Pavlova fo 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
HANDS DOWN THE FUNNIEST HEYER I'VE READ YET Deborah Grantham is a well(-enough) born miss who, due to her father's impoverished circumstances, ended up being raised by her aunt, Lady Bellingham, who runs an exclusive gaming house in London. In any case a little lord with a bad case of puppy love
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
2020 Review Deb reminds me of Sophy. I've never really put my finger on it the same way but I'm reading the books side-by-side and Deb's meddling definitely resembles how I imagine an early Sophy's meddling...though I think Deb is older. 2019 Review Max Ravenscar's kidnapping is truly one of my favori Leggi tutto
Scrumptious. I can't type it here, the Spoiler Stasi would waterboard me, but Z.O.M.G. this entire ending is the outside of enough! I pity the fool who doesn't indulge in the occasional Heyer. A diet of them would be akin to steamed pudding for breakfast, Queen of Puddings for lunch, and a Pavlova fo Leggi tutto
Read a long, long, loooong time ago - review also long overdue, because people tend to ask when I scoff. Georgette Heyer wrote a pretentious, anachronistic, pseudo-scientific retcon version of the regency era, concentrated her allegedly so realistic writing on less than 300 people and those few they Leggi tutto
4.5 stars Charming! I smiled the entire time it took me to read this novel, the battle of the sexes of the first order set in Regency England. Max is a rich, powerful, and arrogant aristocrat. When he learns that his younger cousin, twenty-year-old Adrian, is in love with a girl from a gaming house, Leggi tutto
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