Venetia and the libertine
Venetia and the libertine (in the English original: Venetia) is a romance novel by Georgette Heyer from 1958 , which takes place in the English era of the Regency .
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The novel takes place shortly after the fall of Napoleon in 1815. Venetia, a 25-year-old lady of class, has never left her native Yorkshire county . In the absence of her older brother Conway, who is still an army officer, she has been running the family estate since her father's death and looking after her physically disabled younger brother Aubrey.
One day the owner of the neighboring estate, Lord Jasper Damerel, a notorious womanizer (a "libertine" in the language of the times), returns after years of absence. He becomes friends with Aubrey and falls in love with Venetia, who reciprocates his feelings. Because of his bad reputation in society, however, Damerel refuses to propose to her.
One day, Conway's new wife, whose existence Venetia did not know, and her mother unexpectedly arrive. The mother of the young countess makes life difficult for Venetia and her brother Aubrey by interfering in everything and openly rejecting Aubrey because of his disability. Venetia then decides to travel to London to visit her aunt and forget about Damerel. Meanwhile, her brother is staying with Lord Damarel. In London, to her great surprise, she meets her mother, who she believed was dead. Venetia's father had said this to her to cover up the fact that the mother had run away with her lover when Venetia was little.
After this encounter, Venetia threatens her relatives to live with her mother and her current husband, both of whom have a bad reputation. Your family must realize that marrying Damerel is the lesser of two evils, and the happy ending is assured.
Book editions
- Georgette Heyer, Venetia, Arrow, 2004, ISBN 978-0-09-946565-2
- Georgette Heyer, Venetia and the Wüstling, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek, ISBN 978-3-499-12003-9
literature
- Mary Fahnestock-Thomas: Georgette Heyer. A Critical Retrospective . Prinny World Press, Saraland, Al. 2001, ISBN 978-0-9668005-3-1 , pp. 182-184 .
Web links
literature
- Jane Aiken Hodge: The Private World of Georgette Heyer . The Bodley Head Ltd, 1984, p. 125-129 .
- Mary Fahnestock-Thomas: Georgette Heyer. A Critical Retrospective . Prinny World Press, 2001, pp. 485-486 .