by Georgette Heyer · SOURCEBOOKS INC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781402219474
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«These Old Shades» is the historical romance novel by Georgette Heyer, published by Sourcebooks Inc in paperback (378 pages, in English).
Set in the Georgian period, it follows Justin Alastair, Duke of Avon, a libertine aristocrat nicknamed Satan. One night in Paris he rescues a ragged boy fleeing a brutal guardian and makes him his page, but the boy is not what he seems: his presence unleashes a plot of revenge and secrets that will change the duke's life.
Originally published in 1926, the novel was reissued in 2009 in this paperback edition.
For readers of period historical romance: critics consider Heyer one of the great voices of romantic fiction.
Georgette Heyer was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story conceived for her ailing younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. In 1925 Heyer married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. The couple spent several years living in Tanganyika Territory and Macedonia before returning to England in 1929. After her novel These Old Shades became popular despite its release during the General Strike, Heyer determined that publicity was not necessary for good sales. For the rest of her life she refused to grant interviews, telling a friend: "My private life concerns no one but myself and my family."
