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After their father's death, Miss Judith Taverner and her brother Peregrine travel to London to meet their guardian, Lord Worth, expecting an elderly gentleman. To their surprise and utter disgust, their guardian is not much older than they are, doesn't want the office of guardian any more than they want him, and is determined to thwart all their interests and return them to the country.
With altogether too many complications
But when Miss Taverner and Peregrine begin to move in the highest social circles, Lord Worth cannot help but entangle himself with his adventuresome wards...
Praise for Regency Buck:
"Clever!"â?? Library Journal "Georgette Heyer is unbeatable."â?? Sunday Telegraph "Light and frothy, in the vein of the author's other Regency novels, this follows the fortunes of Miss Judith Taverner and her brother, Sir Peregrine. A good introduction to Heyer's period stories..." â?? The Booklist "Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."â?? Publishers Weekly "A writer of great wit and style... I've read her books to ragged shreds"â?? Katie Fenton, Daily Telegraph "Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire too."â??Katie Ff… (mehr)
Ich kenne keine Romance-Autorin, die ein so breites Spektrum an Persönlichkeiten präsentiert. Heyer mag ein Flair für ältere, lebens- erfahrene Junggesellen haben, aber sie legt sich keineswegs auf solche fest.
After publishing eighteen books, ten of them historical, Georgette Heyer finally turned to the period that she would make her own: the Regency, in a book titled, appropriately enough, Regency Buck.
And oh, it’s awful.
Well, maybe not awful. Let us just say not very good. ...
The failed romance and the borrowings from Pride and Prejudice are, alas, not the only problems with this novel, which suffers from two other problems: one, it is frequently dull, partly because two, it contains far, far, far, far far too much dropping of historical facts.
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Newark was left behind and the post-chaise-and-four entered on a stretch of flat country which offered little to attract the eye, or occasion remark.
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite.Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen.
'I was prepared for worse. I am consoling myself with the reflection that your brother's way of receiving the news cannot be more unflattering to me than my tiger's opinion of it will be to you, my darling!'
After their father's death, Miss Judith Taverner and her brother Peregrine travel to London to meet their guardian, Lord Worth, expecting an elderly gentleman. To their surprise and utter disgust, their guardian is not much older than they are, doesn't want the office of guardian any more than they want him, and is determined to thwart all their interests and return them to the country.
With altogether too many complications
But when Miss Taverner and Peregrine begin to move in the highest social circles, Lord Worth cannot help but entangle himself with his adventuresome wards...
Praise for Regency Buck:
"Clever!"â?? Library Journal "Georgette Heyer is unbeatable."â?? Sunday Telegraph "Light and frothy, in the vein of the author's other Regency novels, this follows the fortunes of Miss Judith Taverner and her brother, Sir Peregrine. A good introduction to Heyer's period stories..." â?? The Booklist "Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."â?? Publishers Weekly "A writer of great wit and style... I've read her books to ragged shreds"â?? Katie Fenton, Daily Telegraph "Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire too."â??Katie Ff
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