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Lädt ... The Adventurersvon Jane Aiken Hodge
   Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  readinggeek451 | Feb 14, 2019 |   This story has definite Heyerian undertones with the young heroine successfully dressing up as a boy, the intelligent, sharp, and ambiguous hero, and even the setting of the Napoleonic wars. There are also some Austenian moments with Lady Elinor, who, like Lady Catherine de Bourgh, unwittingly brings together the two people whom she desires most to keep apart. Very clever. It's been awhile since I have read a new author that I immediately wanted to continue reading. While a few things felt too neat to be fully believable, one does believe the characters themselves. And they're what makes it fun. (  ) atimco | Nov 11, 2017 |  ) SueinCyprus | Jan 26, 2016 | Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Adventure, intrigue, and suspense during Napoleon's forlorn retreat from Russia in 1813. Jane Aiken Hodge was born in the USA, brought up in the UK and read English at Oxford. She received a master's degree from Radcliffe College, Harvard University. Before her books became her living she worked as a civil servant, journalist, publishers' reader and a reviewer. She has written lives of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer as well as a book about women in the Regency period, Passion and Principle. But her main output has been over twenty historical novels set in the eighteenth century, including Polonaise, The Lost Garden, and Savannah Purchase, the beloved third volume of a trilogy set during and after the American War of Independence. More recently she has written novels for Severn House Publishers. She enjoys the borderland between mystery and novel, is pleased to be classed as a feminist writer, and is glad that there is neither a glass ceiling nor a retiring age in the writers' world. She was the daughter of Conrad Aiken and sister of Joan Aiken. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (3.57)
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Sonia von Hugel is hiding in the barn loft when first French soldiers and then Cossacks invade her family's castle and kill everyone they find. Seeing no other choice, she disguises herself as a boy and heads for her hated aunt's house. Along the way, she encounters adventurer Charles Vincent, who convinces her that they can make their fortune playing cards. Along with her governess, miraculously not dead, they accompany the Allies as Napoleon's forces are driven back. But Vincent has secrets--is he a spy, and for whom?
This doesn't have the shape of a modern romance novel, although there is more than one satisfying romance. It is best enjoyed as well-written historical fiction. (