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Arabella (Mass Market Paperback)

by Stella Cameron (Foreword), Georgette Heyer (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Harlequin Books (May 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0373835558
  • ISBN-13: 978-0373835553
  • Product Dimensions: 16.6 x 16.2 x 2.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 869,008 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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One of best-known and most beloved historical novelists will capture a whole new audience in a stunning repackage. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


About the Author

Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, who made the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of fifteen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book - Ulysses is the next great Character!, 13 Nov 2005
By Helen Hancox "Auntie Helen" (Essex, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Arabella (Paperback)
Arabella is one of my favourite Heyer books and part of its charm are the amusing conversations that Beaumaris has with the little dog Ulysses. The central idea that because Arabella isn’t interested in Beaumaris, that piques his interest and makes him pursue her, works quite well except it’s never entirely clear what it is about her that DOES attract him. Yes, she’s pretty – although younger than his usual lady, but she is also innocent and unworldly and therefore makes mistakes that he appears (rather surprisingly) to find charming; she foists young orphans, mongrel dogs and penniless brothers on him (not usually guaranteed to snare your man) and she withholds the truth of her fortune from him – not knowing that he already knows it.

Beaumaris starts the book seeming jaded, bored – the typical rich Heyer hero (although untitled this time), but he seems to become more and more amiable as the book goes on, going against his better judgement in order to humour her in many areas (such as Jemmy the Climbing Boy that he takes in). His conversations with the dog are fantastic though – Heyer occasionally includes dogs in her books and she always gives a wonderfully affectionate and amusing portrait, such as Lufra in the book Frederica and Bouncer in The Reluctant Widow.

The book is a great fun read, with lots of interesting characters well-drawn. For me the only real disappointment is that we never really know quite why Beaumaris falls in love with Arabella, apart from her innocence and freshness, and also why he is so sure that she does really like him when she has given him so little encouragement.
Despite these negative comments, read it and enjoy it. It’s well worth it!

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favourite Georgette Heyer's, 28 Jul 2004
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This has to be one of her funniest, the characters are so full of life and yet it is all done so lightly, with no heavy handedness. The hero and heroine are, as ever, very interesting characters, and I personally find the hero's unrepentant mischievousness much more appealing than any plaster saint.
Though the 'conversations' with his dog has to be the highlights of this book.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The first Regency I read , it got me hooked!, 16 Jul 2000
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This review is from: Arabella (Paperback)
I found a battered copy of this on the crewroom floor at work and as I was at a loose end I read it . I was hooked on Georgette Heyer from that moment . On her way to London Arabella seeks shelter in Mr Beaumaris' house having no idea who he is . He thinks it a ploy on her part and she overhears his not very flattering opinion of her . She decides to pay him back by pretending to be an heiress who would never be interested in him , little knowing that she will meet him everywhere in London and her heiress tale will spread like wildfire . Conseqeuntly , she has all the fortune hunters after her but the only man she really wants is Beaumaris . She can never marry him and keep up the pretence but how can she tell him the truth and not loose him ?
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5.0 out of 5 stars Probably my very favourite Heyer
I am somewhat disconcerted to see that this gets such lukewarm reviews from other reviewers, as I would probably say that it is my favourite of all the Georgette Heyers! Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Delightful but lacking
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4.0 out of 5 stars Ulysees Steals the Show.
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5.0 out of 5 stars My favourite Georgette Heyer
This is without doubt my favourite Georgette Heyer. Beaumaris is the perfect hero - handsome, elegant and incapable of refusing the demands of the lovely Arabella. Read more
Published on 24 Aug 2002 by Jax

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
One of her best, the loveable (and kind)Arabella boasts of a non existant fortune; but still gets her man. She also rescues a chimney boy and a dog. Good fun.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Really good read
One of her best books, easy to read and empathize with the characters.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Amusing, witty - good story on way to expected ending
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5.0 out of 5 stars My favourite Georgette Heyer (so far, and I've read lots)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous
I would highly recommend this book to all Heyer fans. I find Arabella my favorite heroine out of all the Georgette Heyer's books I have read. Read more
Published on 5 Dec 1999

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