The Toll-Gate - Couverture souple

Heyer, Georgette

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1402238819 ISBN 13 : 9781402238819

Editeur : Sourcebooks Casablanca, 2011

Synopsis

"Witty...a cheerful extravaganza." -The New Yorker"His exploits were legendary..."Captain John Staple, back from the battlefront, is already bored with his quiet civilian life in the country. When he stumbles upon a mystery involving a disappearing toll-gate keeper, nothing could keep the adventure-loving captain from investigating."But winning her will be his greatest yet..."The plot thickens when John encounters the enigmatic Lady Nell Stornaway and soon learns that rescuing her from her unsavory relatives makes even the most ferocious cavalry charge look like a particularly tame hand of loo. Between hiding his true identity from Nell and the arrival in the neighborhood of some distinctly shady characters, Captain Staple finds himself embarked on the adventure-and romance-of a lifetime."Spritely and good fun."-New York Herald Tribune"Once again Georgette Heyer has directed her comic genius along the fictional highway of early nineteenth-century England, but this time...cleaves with refreshing persistence to the commoner levels of life."-Chicago Sunday Tribune"Told in elegant prose with exceptionally humorous dialogue by the Queen of Regency romance."-Good Book Guide

A propos du livre

Biographie 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.

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Captain John Staple's exploits in the Peninsula had earned him the sobriquet 'Crazy' Jack amongst his fellows in the Dragoon Guards. Now home from Waterloo, life in peacetime is rather dull for the boisterous, adventure-loving Captain. But when he finds himself lost and benighted at an unmanned toll-house in the Pennines, his soldiering days suddenly pale away besides an adventure - and romance - of a lifetime.

Yet again Georgette Heyer shows the qualities that made her one of the most successful and best-loved romantic novelists of her age, and why her popularity endures to this day.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Sourcebooks Casablanca
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1402238819
• ISBN 13: 9781402238819
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320