The Alastair Trilogy Boxed Set: "These Old Shades", "Devil's Cub", "Infamous Army" - Couverture souple

Heyer, Georgette

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099491133 ISBN 13 : 9780099491132

Editeur : Arrow Books Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

This work contains three novels. In "These Old Shades", the reign of Louis XV, corruption and intrigue have been allowed to blossom in France, and Justin Alastair, the notorious Duke of Avon and proud of his soubriquet 'Satanas', flourishes as well. Then, from a dark Parisian back alley, he plucks L-on, a red-headed urchin with strangely familiar looks, just in time for his long over-due schemes of revenge on the Comte de St. Vire. Among the splendours of Versailles and the dignified mansions of England, Justin begins to unfold his sinister plans - until, that is, L-on becomes the ravishing beauty Leonie. In "Devils' Cub", the excesses of the young Marquis of Vidal are even wilder than his father's before him. Not for nothing is the reckless duellist and gamester called 'the Devil's Cub'. But when he is forced to leave the country, Mary Challoner discovers his fiendish plan to abduct her sister. And only by daring to impersonate her can Mary save her sibling from certain ruin. In "Infamous Army", 1815, beneath the aegis of the Army of Occupation, Brussels is the gayest town in Europe. And the widow Lady Barbara Childe, renowned for being as outrageous as she is beautiful, is at the centre of all that is fashionable and light-hearted. When she meets Charles Audley, dashing aide-de-campe to the great Duke of Wellington himself, her joie de vivre knows no bounds - until the eve of the fateful Battle of Waterloo.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, making the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of fifteen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arrow Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099491133
• ISBN 13: 9780099491132
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
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• Personne responsable: non disponible