Point Books As Venetia
| Original Title: | Venetia |
| ISBN: | 0373771665 (ISBN13: 9780373771660) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Venetia Lanyon, Jasper, Lord Damerel |
| Setting: | Yorkshire, England(United Kingdom) |
Georgette Heyer
Paperback | Pages: 364 pages Rating: 4.1 | 13505 Users | 1331 Reviews
Details Appertaining To Books Venetia
| Title | : | Venetia |
| Author | : | Georgette Heyer |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 364 pages |
| Published | : | October 24th 2006 by Hqn (first published 1958) |
| Categories | : | Romance. Historical. Historical Fiction. Historical Romance. Regency. Fiction |
Ilustration To Books Venetia
Twenty-five-year-old Venetia Lanyon's beauty is rivaled only by her sensibility. Intelligent and independent, her future seems safe and predictable. Lovely Venetia despairs of ever meeting the handsome hero of her romantic dreams but is nearly resigned to spinsterhood, thanks to the enormous amount of responsibility she inherited with a Yorkshire estate and an invalid but precocious brother, Aubrey. She lives in comfortable seclusion in rural Yorkshire, she has never been further than Harrogate, nor enjoyed the lackluster attentions of any but her two wearisomely persistent suitors. She can not accept to marry the respectable but dull Edward Yardley - she will only marry for love. Then her long-absent neighbor, thirty-eight-year-old Lord Jasper Damerel, returns home to Yorkshire. In one extraordinary encounter, she meets the infamous neighbor, who she knows only by reputation - a gamester, a shocking rake, and a man of sadly unsteady character - and before she knows better, she finds friendship with a libertine whose way of life has scandalised the North Riding for years. Lord Damerel finds Venetia to be the most truly engaging and wittily perverse female he has encountered in all his life and determined to woo and win her, he pursues her with a passionate abandon that is soon the talk of the ton. And after her encounter with the dashing, dangerous rake, Venetia's well-ordered life is turned upside down, and she embarks upon a courtship with him that scandalises and horrifies the whole community. But Venetia has no intention of losing her heart to the rakish lord until she is sure that beneath his swashbuckling ways and shocking manners lies a tender heart belonging to her. And Lord Damerel would marry her in a heartbeat if he did not think it would ruin her. Then she discovers a shocking family secret that changes everything ... It was therefore particularly provoking to find that occasion, Lord Damerel could make up his mind to be idiotically noble....Rating Appertaining To Books Venetia
Ratings: 4.1 From 13505 Users | 1331 ReviewsJudge Appertaining To Books Venetia
Im really sorry, but I didnt liked it I suppose the story could have been interesting, but the writing style was too confusing for me. Unfortunately there was no possibility of following it up in the accepted mode, and although several susceptible gentlemen inveighed bitterly against the barbarity of a parent who would permit no visitor to enter his house none of them was so deeply heart-smitten after standing up with the lovely Miss Lanyon for one country-dance as to cast aside every canon ofGeorgette Heyer is the first author I've read who makes Jane Austen seem emo. Don't get me wrong, I adore Austen and consider WWJD to stand for "What Would Jane Do?", but I really enjoyed this charming and angst-free Regency tale of Venetia and her Wicked Baron, the rake Damerel. Oh Damerel... Imagine Sense and Sensibility's Willoughby and Jane Eyre's Rochester without their respective issues -- or wives. Damerel is charming, mischievous, and funny. The same could also be said of Venetia, who is
I read the Arrow, but I think Arrow got it completely wrong with the cover art on their edition - a plain redhead Venetia, a bland looking, curly haired Damerel! Faugh! I still do have my old falling apart Pan & checked some of the Regency slang to make sure there were no typos (as far as I could tell there weren't!)Another example of GH experimenting with the genre & my younger self would have found Venetia's realistic expectations for her future happiness & (view spoiler)[ the fact
June 2019 reread with the Georgette Heyer group!News flash: I'm not 18 any more. So even though I still have a soft spot for romances in general and Regencies in particular, my appetite for reading about sweet, silly young girls who do brainless things and have Big Misunderstandings with the guy has dwindled to almost zero. When you're yelling "TALK TO EACH OTHER, PEOPLE" at a book, it's not particularly conducive to the romantic feelz.Which brings me to Venetia. Venetia herself is one of my
Enjoyed the story very much. Venetia's sense, sass and humour is nothing short of amazing. The hero was cut out along the usual lines of generic, worldweary, byronic rake and I found him quite meh, but I got used to him in the end.
My favorite Heyer and probably the sexiest hero she ever created. It reads great, but the best way to discover Venetia is by listening to the Richard Armitage audiobook on NAXOS. Yes, it's an abridged version, but hearing RA as Damerel is not to be missed. Truly swoonworthy.
Here's the thing: This book is one of my all-time favorite books. I've read it so many times by now that I lost count. And yet I never wrote a review, because I could never really find the right words to do this book justice. When I finally convinced two of my good friends to give this book a try, yet another re-read was in order! And guess what, I still love it, and still can't come up with coherent reasons why. Let's start with the heroine:"I wish you will tell me some of the things you have
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