アール伯爵マーカスは適齢期。名家出身の美人エリザベス・ウィンウッドに求婚するが、彼女にはすでに恋人がいて、愛のない結婚は望んでいない。姉の不幸を救うために、ウィンウッド家の一番年若の娘、ホレイシアがマーカスに逆プロポーズし、彼も、ひどいどもりの風変わりな小さい娘に興味を引かれて結婚する。「お互いの生活には一切干渉しない」との見せ掛け上の結婚だったはずだが…
17歳のホリーから見ると35歳のマーカスは「年寄り」で、最初は彼女は親戚の叔父に接するみたいな態度でマーカスを扱い、彼もほとんど保護者。そのうちにマーカスの愛人の影がちらついたり、彼を陥れようとするライバルの出現、財産狙いの親戚、ギャンブル好きなホリーや兄のしでかす騒動の連続で、飽きることがない。
主人公のホリーはまだ子供で、おまけに不美人でどもりもひどいが、マーカスは段々彼女を愛するようになる。 私は30過ぎてるので、ホリーよりも先にマーカスの有り難みがわかって、彼に恋しました… 彼は大人で、頭脳明晰、礼儀正しく、眠たそうな灰色の瞳の奥で常に周囲を観察している。ほとんど感情を表に出さない彼が、時にはホリーの為に大胆な行動を取ったりする。 Georgette Heyerのヒーローは、現代のロマンス小説に出てくるヒーロー達の原点でしょう。 読み終わった後に、自然と笑顔になります。 英国Random House社のArrow版のHeyer本はどれも装丁が美しいので、全部集めたいです。
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The Convenient Marriage ペーパーバック – 2005/2/22
英語版
Georgette Heyer
(著)
When the most eligible Earl of Rule offers for the hand of the Beauty of the Winwood Family, he has no notion of the distress he causes his intended.
- ISBN-100099474425
- ISBN-13978-0099474425
- 出版社Arrow
- 発売日2005/2/22
- 言語英語
- 寸法13 x 1.91 x 19.84 cm
- 本の長さ320ページ
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"Wonderful characters and rapturously romantic" ― Katie Fforde
"It is utterly delightful, all of it, and I am going to be sharing Heyer novels from now on with anyone I know who is in need of a pick-me up." ― Guardian Book Blog
"My favourite novelist . . . If you haven't read Georgette Heyer before, I envy you. What a treat you have in store!" ― Harriet Evans
"Triumphantly good . . . Georgette Heyer is unbeatable" ― India Knight
"Heyer’s characterisation and dialogue are an abiding delight to me." ― Dorothy L. Sayers
"It is utterly delightful, all of it, and I am going to be sharing Heyer novels from now on with anyone I know who is in need of a pick-me up." ― Guardian Book Blog
"My favourite novelist . . . If you haven't read Georgette Heyer before, I envy you. What a treat you have in store!" ― Harriet Evans
"Triumphantly good . . . Georgette Heyer is unbeatable" ― India Knight
"Heyer’s characterisation and dialogue are an abiding delight to me." ― Dorothy L. Sayers
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Georgette Heyer, who wrote over fifty novels died in 1974.
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- 発売日 : 2005/2/22
- 言語 : 英語
- ペーパーバック : 320ページ
- ISBN-10 : 0099474425
- ISBN-13 : 978-0099474425
- 寸法 : 13 x 1.91 x 19.84 cm
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linnie
5つ星のうち5.0
Aad ensures abound with a feisty strong minded woman and the perfect hero
2023年10月2日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Georgette has done it again! Conjuring the atmosphere of imagery off bygone times, through exciting, funny and enthralling romance.
Be whisked away and ensconce yourself in velvet and muslin. Be prepared for some great entertainment, characters so real, inept, narcissistic, malignant and downright daft. Ultimately an incredible heroine, not fitting any mould...and a gorgeous hero, to sweep you off your feet!
What's not to like?
Be whisked away and ensconce yourself in velvet and muslin. Be prepared for some great entertainment, characters so real, inept, narcissistic, malignant and downright daft. Ultimately an incredible heroine, not fitting any mould...and a gorgeous hero, to sweep you off your feet!
What's not to like?
Goybabe
5つ星のうち5.0
Romance, Swordplay and Inconvenient Escapades
2018年5月14日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
What a fun book! A joy to read, and it moves at a fast clip. Only last week I posted a review of one of Heyer’s most thoughtful novels, A Civil Contract. But there’s nothing dark or complex about The Convenient Marriage, only romance, gambling, swordplay and contentious mix-ups in the fashionable world. Be aware this isn’t a Regency. It’s one of her so-called Georgian novels, taking place during the American Revolution, though it very much has the texture of one of her Regencies, particularly in the sparkling dialog. It’s one of her early works, published in 1934 during a burst of creative output. I think it’s what the critics of her day would have called “a frothy confection,” and good for them, because that’s what it is.
It opens with a small family catastrophe. The lovely and level-headed Elizabeth Winwood, eldest of three daughters, has received an offer of marriage from Marcus Drelincourt, the Earl of Rule, an offer she knows her financially-strapped family can’t turn down. Unfortunately, she’s deeply in love with a young army captain named Edward Heron. Heyer never bogs down the story with a lot of reasons for the proposal – Rule knows it’s past time to marry, a thing his sister Louisa is pressing him to do, and the Winwoods are the family his parents had expected him to marry into. Elizabeth’s younger sister, Charlotte, is much like her, though she has no desire to marry. The youngest, Horatia, at seventeen, is nothing like her sisters, either in appearance or temperament, being more like her dippy brother, Viscount Winwood. She shares with her brother the “Winwood curse,” a fatal attraction to gambling, the most common amusement in the period. Though she may be a bit of a flake, and she may have a bit of a stammer, she’s also honest, loyal and loving. And headstrong, which compels her to ignore all the family hand-wringing and solve the problem herself. She simply goes to Rule, who’s never met her, and asks politely if he wouldn’t be just as happy to marry her instead. This opening scene between them is priceless, and it sets the stage beautifully, since Rule is captivated by her, while Horatia can’t quite figure out why anyone who had an offer from Rule would marry someone else.
I absolutely loved the character of Lord Rule, and much that’s funny in this book comes from the younger, flakier characters trying to put one over on him. He’s so level and unruffled he becomes something of a parental figure, not only for his wife but her dim-bulb, handsome brother, his friends, Captain Heron, the earl’s cousins and just about everyone else who quakes in their boots at the thought of getting on his bad side. And he does have a bad side, particularly when his family is threatened. Although, as the story progresses, getting him angry seems to be something Horry can’t manage to do, no matter how outrageous her behavior as she tries to find her feet at the start of their marriage, navigating the dangers of becoming fashionable, as well as the traps set for her by older and more sophisticated members of the ton who have some dark axes to grind where Rule is concerned. Marcus Drelincourt is one of what Heyer called her Mark II heroes, handsome, a little older, mid-thirties in his case, enigmatic and a bit disdainful, watching the passing parade with amusement. Rule has what’s often described as a sleepy appearance; for sleepy, read “bored,” yet not in a nasty or unpleasant way. In fact he’s a nice man, open-handed with money, kind to employees and all that. He’s just not particularly driven towards anything, until Horatia Winwood appears on scene.
Like Avon in These Old Shades, Rule feels he can give Horatia a good life, but he also thinks he’s probably too old for her, and that she couldn’t love him on that account. Remember that love in a marriage wasn’t a necessity at that time; it was only a happy accident if you got it. Heyer never wrote sex scenes of course, but she handles the sexual issues very adroitly in this book, and it’s implied that Rule never presses his young wife for anything she doesn’t want to give. He stands back, indulges her incessantly, and patiently waits for her to decide how she feels about him.
A good deal of the playfulness in this book is in the character of the young Viscount Winwood, particularly when he, his best friend Sir Roland Pommeroy and Captain Heron set out to get Horatia out of a jam over a lost brooch, a Drelincourt family heirloom that figures prominently in an attempt by one of Rule’s enemies to destroy her reputation. No one ever wrote funnier dialog between young and none-too-bright aristocrats – shades of Friday’s Child! Heyer herself said the young viscount, Sherry, in Friday’s Child is a retread of Winwood, and it plays just as well as the dizzy antics of Sherry, Gil and Ferdy, laugh-out-loud funny. It all, of course, comes to a happy ending, an absolutely delightful one. This would make a great first Heyer, I think, but if you’re a fan, don’t miss this lesser-known and light-hearted story.
It opens with a small family catastrophe. The lovely and level-headed Elizabeth Winwood, eldest of three daughters, has received an offer of marriage from Marcus Drelincourt, the Earl of Rule, an offer she knows her financially-strapped family can’t turn down. Unfortunately, she’s deeply in love with a young army captain named Edward Heron. Heyer never bogs down the story with a lot of reasons for the proposal – Rule knows it’s past time to marry, a thing his sister Louisa is pressing him to do, and the Winwoods are the family his parents had expected him to marry into. Elizabeth’s younger sister, Charlotte, is much like her, though she has no desire to marry. The youngest, Horatia, at seventeen, is nothing like her sisters, either in appearance or temperament, being more like her dippy brother, Viscount Winwood. She shares with her brother the “Winwood curse,” a fatal attraction to gambling, the most common amusement in the period. Though she may be a bit of a flake, and she may have a bit of a stammer, she’s also honest, loyal and loving. And headstrong, which compels her to ignore all the family hand-wringing and solve the problem herself. She simply goes to Rule, who’s never met her, and asks politely if he wouldn’t be just as happy to marry her instead. This opening scene between them is priceless, and it sets the stage beautifully, since Rule is captivated by her, while Horatia can’t quite figure out why anyone who had an offer from Rule would marry someone else.
I absolutely loved the character of Lord Rule, and much that’s funny in this book comes from the younger, flakier characters trying to put one over on him. He’s so level and unruffled he becomes something of a parental figure, not only for his wife but her dim-bulb, handsome brother, his friends, Captain Heron, the earl’s cousins and just about everyone else who quakes in their boots at the thought of getting on his bad side. And he does have a bad side, particularly when his family is threatened. Although, as the story progresses, getting him angry seems to be something Horry can’t manage to do, no matter how outrageous her behavior as she tries to find her feet at the start of their marriage, navigating the dangers of becoming fashionable, as well as the traps set for her by older and more sophisticated members of the ton who have some dark axes to grind where Rule is concerned. Marcus Drelincourt is one of what Heyer called her Mark II heroes, handsome, a little older, mid-thirties in his case, enigmatic and a bit disdainful, watching the passing parade with amusement. Rule has what’s often described as a sleepy appearance; for sleepy, read “bored,” yet not in a nasty or unpleasant way. In fact he’s a nice man, open-handed with money, kind to employees and all that. He’s just not particularly driven towards anything, until Horatia Winwood appears on scene.
Like Avon in These Old Shades, Rule feels he can give Horatia a good life, but he also thinks he’s probably too old for her, and that she couldn’t love him on that account. Remember that love in a marriage wasn’t a necessity at that time; it was only a happy accident if you got it. Heyer never wrote sex scenes of course, but she handles the sexual issues very adroitly in this book, and it’s implied that Rule never presses his young wife for anything she doesn’t want to give. He stands back, indulges her incessantly, and patiently waits for her to decide how she feels about him.
A good deal of the playfulness in this book is in the character of the young Viscount Winwood, particularly when he, his best friend Sir Roland Pommeroy and Captain Heron set out to get Horatia out of a jam over a lost brooch, a Drelincourt family heirloom that figures prominently in an attempt by one of Rule’s enemies to destroy her reputation. No one ever wrote funnier dialog between young and none-too-bright aristocrats – shades of Friday’s Child! Heyer herself said the young viscount, Sherry, in Friday’s Child is a retread of Winwood, and it plays just as well as the dizzy antics of Sherry, Gil and Ferdy, laugh-out-loud funny. It all, of course, comes to a happy ending, an absolutely delightful one. This would make a great first Heyer, I think, but if you’re a fan, don’t miss this lesser-known and light-hearted story.
Franzii
5つ星のうち5.0
sooo witzig!!!
2018年7月15日にドイツでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Dies war nicht mein erstes Georgette-Heyer-Buch; aber ich glaube, so viel gelacht habe ich sonst bei keinem!
Die Geschichte beginnt eigentlich erst da, wo andere Liebesromane aufhören: Junges, wagemutiges Mädchen heiratet wesentlich älteren, reichen Earl und rettet so ihre verarmte Familie vor dem Ruin und ihre älteren Schwestern vor einer lieblosen Pflichtehe.
Die vielen Verwicklungen, die nun folgen und zeigen, ob aus dieser Geldheirat die große Liebe wird, oder ob sich doch nur bestätigt, dass Geld den Charakter verdirbt - das macht den Witz und die Spannung in dieser Geschichte aus. Dabei kommt vor allem auch den Nebenfiguren eine wesentliche Rolle zu, hauptsächlich dem Bruder der Hauptfigur ( Pel) und dessen Freund ( Pom) , die ( meist unfreiwillig) in die haarsträubendsten Situationen geraten - und einem herrlich morallosen Schurken, der den jungen Eheleuten das Leben schwer macht, weil er mit dem Earl noch eine Rechnung offen hat ...
Ich kann dieses Buch nur wärmstens empfehlen, wenn Sie Regency Romane mögen und den Heyer'schen Sprachwitz schätzen. Schade dass man nur fünf Sterne vergeben kann....
Die Geschichte beginnt eigentlich erst da, wo andere Liebesromane aufhören: Junges, wagemutiges Mädchen heiratet wesentlich älteren, reichen Earl und rettet so ihre verarmte Familie vor dem Ruin und ihre älteren Schwestern vor einer lieblosen Pflichtehe.
Die vielen Verwicklungen, die nun folgen und zeigen, ob aus dieser Geldheirat die große Liebe wird, oder ob sich doch nur bestätigt, dass Geld den Charakter verdirbt - das macht den Witz und die Spannung in dieser Geschichte aus. Dabei kommt vor allem auch den Nebenfiguren eine wesentliche Rolle zu, hauptsächlich dem Bruder der Hauptfigur ( Pel) und dessen Freund ( Pom) , die ( meist unfreiwillig) in die haarsträubendsten Situationen geraten - und einem herrlich morallosen Schurken, der den jungen Eheleuten das Leben schwer macht, weil er mit dem Earl noch eine Rechnung offen hat ...
Ich kann dieses Buch nur wärmstens empfehlen, wenn Sie Regency Romane mögen und den Heyer'schen Sprachwitz schätzen. Schade dass man nur fünf Sterne vergeben kann....
Jordan Blackmore
5つ星のうち5.0
Item as described
2023年12月21日にオーストラリアでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Very happy with transaction
naini abbas
5つ星のうち5.0
Beautifully romantic.
2016年10月16日にインドでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Beautifully romantic... Had a wonderful time reading it.. Please go ahead and buy because it's totally worth it. Georgette Heyer is at her best in this.