![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/fugue21/magnifier-left.png)
![](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0099474441.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Carregue numa fotografia para ir para os Livros Google.
A carregar... A Civil Contract (1961)por Georgette Heyer
![]() Books We Love to Reread (156) Best Love Stories (20) » 5 mais Books Read in 2023 (676) Books Read in 2015 (1,537) Books Read in 2019 (1,826) Books Read in 2021 (3,277) Books Read in 2022 (2,606) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton, returns from the Peninsular War to find himself faced with the necessity of providing for his sisters and settling his father's debts. A wealthy marriage is the only answer to such problems but, with his affections already engaged, Adam at first sees little merit in the arrangement proposed by the plain-speaking Jonathan Chawleigh. Practical, yet shy, Jenny Chawleigh knew Adam was not in love with her - but how she wished he could be... I'd be a liar if I said that this book was flawless. I don't believe it was. But Heyer did something here that she hadn't really done in any other novel of her's that I'd read. She effectively and realistically chronicled the gradual growth and change of two human beings and their relationship. There was so much that was real about these people and the relationship. To be sure, "love" is a nice icing on the cake. But there is so much more to a lifelong alliance than the "honeymoon"-style attraction. And I think Heyer effectively shows that here. I was drawn in to by the Austen-esque tributes but I stayed for the realism and the beautiful tapestry of camaraderie, trust, and respect. So, while it doesn't hold up very well when compared to classics like Jane Eyre, To Kill a Mockingbird, and others, I would give it 5 stars because I think it represents Heyer's personal best. sem crÃticas | adicionar uma crÃtica
Fiction.
Romance.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: Georgette Heyer, the bestselling Queen of Regency Romance, brings her extraordinary plots and characterizations to an unexpected and delightful marriage of convenience love story. Can the wrong bride become the perfect wife? Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton, is madly in love with the beautiful Julia Oversley. But he has returned from the Peninsular War to find his family on the brink of ruin and his ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt. He has little choice when he is introduced to Mr. Jonathan Chawleigh, a City man of apparently unlimited wealth and no social ambitions for himself—but with his eyes firmly fixed on a suitable match for his only daughter, the quiet and decidedly plain Jenny Chawleigh. Praise for Georgette Heyer: Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
Current DiscussionsNenhum(a)Capas populares
![]() GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)813Literature English (North America) American fictionClassificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:![]()
É você?Torne-se num Autor LibraryThing. |
A lovely, gentle story, there is little action in it but a great deal of introspection for the characters.
re-read 3/2/2024 (