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Georgette Heyer

Paperback | Pages: 364 pages

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Title	:	Venetia
Author	:	Georgette Heyer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 364 pages
Published	:	October 24th 2006 by Hqn (first published 1958)
Categories	:	Romance. Historical. Historical Fiction. Historical Romance. Regency. Fiction

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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....

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Original Title:	Venetia
ISBN:	0373771665 (ISBN13: 9780373771660)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Venetia Lanyon, Jasper, Lord Damerel
Setting:	Yorkshire, England(United Kingdom)

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Never in my life have I been so glad of a rainy afternoon. Never so glad that I was bored and typed a name into a search bar to see what would come up. It was in this slightly unorthodox way that I originally discovered Venetia. In a fit of utter boredom I typed the name Richard Armitage (he'd recently become my favourite actor) into the iTunes search bar, and what should appear? ...Three novels by Georgette Heyer, narrated by Richard Armitage. I need not tell you I was wide awake again after

Yorkshire, 1818*WARNING! Spoilers, gushing, swooning, quoting and rose-petal strewing ahead! ;) (no orgies though, I promise -- read on safely :P)*O Venetia! Thou hast utterly captured my soul!"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."And a Damerel by any other name would be just as swoon-worthy!"I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself."Because my name is Venetia and I'm one of the most wonderful heroines in all literature. I have lived one of the dreamiest romances possible, and have

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.

Venetia is, without question, my favourite of all Georgette Heyers Regency Romances, and Ive been looking forward to this new, unabridged audio version for some time. Much of the story takes place in the Autumn, and Ive always felt that the book has a corresponding maturity about it, an almost elegiac feel in terms of the beauty of the prose and in the depth of the characterisation. Damerel is certainly one of Ms Heyers most strongly drawn and sexiest heroes, and the eponymous heroine is an

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

3.5While reading Venetia I spent half of my time being thrilled (Lord Damerel and Venetia are both wonderful characters) and the other half being frustrated, annoyed and plain angry. There was no middle, people.On the one hand, you have these two wonderful people. Lord Damerel is said to be every horrible and ugly thing under the sun, but to me he was perfect. He never does anything bad in the book. His actions speak louder than any pretty words could. Although his first appearance isn't exactly

This was my first book by G. Heyer. I read it in my first year of reading in English, so I wasn't an admirer of English language yet (I knew it not enough). Now, after a second reading I admit, I underestimated it. I mean, 4 stars? Really? ;-)Let's start with a general outline:* Venetia Lanyon (25) - beautiful (gorgeous), sensible, rather calm, intelligent (almost bluestocking, horror! ;-) ), witty.* Lord Jasper Damerel (38) - nice-looking but not handsome, intelligent (even bookish), witty, a