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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
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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
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
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
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
I love it! One of the best Heyer books. I couldn't stop reading. Fortunately, I could spare time for that. So I have read it in one day (all day). There wasn't a scene that I don't like. You have many situations and brilliant dialogues between characters. Both heroes have a spirit, strong personality 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
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
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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