A Civil Contract

Informationen zum Autor Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, who made the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth , published in 1921, was written at the age of seventeen 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. Klappentext Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton and a hero at Salamanca, returns from the Peninsula War to find his family on the brink of ruin. It is Lord Oversley, father of Adam's first love, who introduces him to Jonathan Chaleigh, a city man of apparently unlimited wealth, but with his eyes firmly fixed on a suitable match for his only daughter. Zusammenfassung Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton and a hero at Salamanca, returns from the Peninsula War to find his family on the brink of ruin. It is Lord Oversley, father of Adam's first love, who introduces him to Jonathan Chaleigh, a city man of apparently unlimited wealth, but with his eyes firmly fixed on a suitable match for his only daughter.

Product details

• Authors: Georgette Heyer
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.06.2005
• EAN: 9780099474449
• ISBN: 978-0-09-947444-9
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, FICTION / Historical / General, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Romance / Historical / Regency, Classic fiction, c 1811 to c 1820 (Regency period)