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Cargando... Minerva (1983 original; edición 2014)por M.C. Beaton
Información de la obraMinerva por M. C. Beaton (1983)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Sparse 10/2018 ( ) Meh. Wish my public library would stop buying old stuff that's been repackaged in ebook form. I'll choose a book with a copyright date in the 2010's, then discover that refers only to the release of the ebook, and the original text is decades old. This is an old regency romance from the 1980's when a bunch of guys planning to Minerva, the eldest and most prudish of the six Armitage sisters, goes to London to try to find a rich husband to save her family from bankruptcy. True love does win, but not without some trouble. The joy of Chesney's Regency romances is usually the side characters--the minister father who cares for nothing but fox hunting, the London chaperone whose morals are atrocious, the chaperone's meek fancy man with a wandering eye. This is terrific fun. The first in a series of six books (surprise?) by Marion Chesney. I have read them all, more than once, and would certainly read them again. These books are sort of a "Jane Austen-light" type of read. Her other series of books about "A House for the Season" and "School for Manners" are better, but they're all good reads. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesThe Six Sisters (1)
Minerva marks the delightful debut of The Six Sisters, a family saga in six volumes that will recount the romantic adventures of the six marriageable daughters of a country vicar, the Reverend Charles Armitage, in Regency England. The eldest, Minerva, is enchantingly beautiful - but a prude. She lives in the country looking after her siblings while her mother reclines on a chaise longue happily inventing new malaises. Her father, a vicar of decidedly secular inclinations, indulges a hearty passion for hunting instead of worrying about the girls' dowries. But when he wants to send his boys to Eton, the money must be found - and how better than by marrying Minerva off to a man of fortune? Dispatched to Town, Minerva experiences her first season under the wing of an elderly relative. But age, it seems, is no guarantee of respectability, and Lady Godolphin's plan for a good time scandalise her young charge. Finally, Minerva's moralising ways make her the subject of a shocking wager among the rakes and dandies of Regency London. Meanwhile, the handsome Lord Sylvester Comfrey is observing her progress in the marriage market. For such a virtuous girl, Minerva unaccountably finds herself in some extremely compromising situations with this gentleman, who alas professes not to be the marrying kind. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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