The Early Georgette Heyer Collection
The Transformation of Philip Jettan; The Black Moth; The Great Roxhythe; Instead of the Thorn; A Proposal To Cicely
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3.4 • 12 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Georgette Heyer single handedly created and popularized the historic and regency romance genre. Heyer’s writing is lively, witty, and charming full of vividly realized characters and well researched historic locales. Simply put she had no equal among her contemporaries.
We have gathered Heyer’s first four novels and a short story together in this omnibus edition. There are three hundred and fifty thousand words and over nine hundred and fifty pages of fantastically written romance fiction. Included are The Transformation of Philip Jettan, The Black Moth, The Great Roxhythe, Instead of the Thorn, and “A Proposal To Cicely.”
Customer Reviews
Early Heyer: Instead of the Thorn
I wanted to smack the four primary characters upside the head with the Compact Encyclopedia Britannica, all volumes at once, each, severally.
The stilted breathlessness of Elizabeth’s speaking style drove me nuts. I thought it limited to Barbara Cartland.
One sees some of it in The Black Moth, as well, but not as constantly.
There were 2 1/2 people in the story with any sense: the family friend Mr Hengist (never mentioned in any other way), a farmwife, and Stephen’s mother). Elizabeth and Stephen needed to be sent back to the schoolroom/finishing school/university and taught to grow up and think. Elizabeth’s is the only character who develops.