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The Quiet Gentleman | 
 enlarge | Author: Georgette Heyer
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 27273
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 4.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0099476371
EAN: 9780099476375
ASIN: 0099476371
Publication Date: October 6, 2005
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great story March 24, 2008
not the typical romance story, but it was a great one as i couldnt put it down and finished it in a day!!!! totally didnt see the twist in the end coming and it totally worked!!!!
quiet gentleman is not quiet indeed March 21, 2008
This is not a book that the events are spinning around the romance quite the reverse. Here, neither the events nor the people are not what they seem to be. Great read I loved it but as it is a Heyer this should not be surprising.
More complex than most February 25, 2008
I'm a recent convert to Georgette Heyer, and am probably into double figures by now - I have been reading them back to back recently. I enjoyed this one because it wasn't obvious by page 10 who was going to marry whom. It is also a bit of a whodunnit, and there is an interesting cast of characters, and some good plot twists.
A bit darker than some of the others, but more convincing. My absolute favourite so far is The Grand Sophy (completely different) but this one comes a close second.
A Quiet Enjoyment February 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When reading some customer critics' plot synopsis on this novel, I come to think about all the chances Ms. Heyer has missed to make this book a pompous, over-dramatized epic about an ill-treated young man who in spite of his father's neglect of him comes and collects his inheritance, defies his evil relatives and gets himself a bride after hardship and persecution. We may thank God that this is not at all in Ms. Heyer's style.
Instead we have a thoroughly charming, intelligent hero with a very sound sense of humour, an unorthodox, totally practical heroine who doesn't seem to understand at all what a heroine she is, a collection of very vivid people surrounding the two, representing the whole spectrum of human virtues and weaknesses. People in real life are seldom (or never) totally black or white, which they tend to be in many a romantic book or TV series, and Ms. Heyer is always aware of this. Even her most horrible figures seem to be able to arouse some sort of sympathy that almost sneaks upon us without our knowledge; when we laugh with her and her hero Gervase at Gervase's dreadful step-mother, the laughter is not mean. Is Ms. Heyer ever sarcastic about her characters? I don't seem to recall an instance. It is always easier to tolerate an irritating person if you can be amused by her and her ways in a gentle and purely humorous way. This seems to be Gervase's attitude towards his relatives. Good for him. He also understands that there always are two sides to every coin; there are positive sides even to his secret enemy, and Gervase is aware of them and does not want totally to condemn him.
The romantic development between Gervase and his Drusilla is very subtle and written without italics of any kind. Drusilla is very far indeed from the alluring, wilful, sexually enticing, manipulating heroine of some stories. She is criticizing herself for her lack of those qualities, and this is one of the most endearing features of the story. She doesn't appreciate her practical intelligence, her caring for other people in spite of their possible flaws, or her immense social skills that derive from the fact that she is confident but not conceited. Luckily, Gervase sees all this.
Gervase is beautiful, graceful, sweet-tempered, wealthy and an Earl, the dream of every mother-in-law; through the book we find out that he is more resilient than anybody at first suspects, he knows what he wants and how to get it without having to quarrel with anybody. In fact, his way of making things happen his way reminds me strongly of the defensive moves of the Swedish national ice-hockey team (i.e. making it impossible for the adversary to have it his way). Moreover, he seems to have an unending tolerance to other people's being different from himself (my husband is like him in this although not an Earl, and it is the secret of our 23-year-old marriage). He could pick any beautiful heiress as his bride; instead he observes Drusilla, notices her excellent qualities, is amused by her eternal common sense, respects her as a friend, and on top of all this, understands that this is the woman he wants to live his life with. I can see them as life-companions, Drusilla adoring her thoroughly lovable husband and Gervase loving her and congratulating himself for his successful choice of bride.
The humour in this book is typically "heyerish", contained in the people and in the way they speak and react, not explained or underlined. The best examples of this are the discussions involving Drusilla's parents and the enormous self-satisfaction of Lady St.Erth. Everything that Drusilla says has high comedy in it, and Gervase is the first to appreciate this, not in a way to ironize over her, but to enjoy her matter-of-factness and her realism that distinguish her from other women.
For you that have not yet discovered this piece of literary art, I congratulate you for the nice time you are going to have.
A lovely hint of mystery November 19, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A wonderful tale in which our hero is steadfast in the face of slurs on his character, a miserable and unwelcoming family and some wonderfully blackguardish behaviour. There is more than a hint of swashbuckling derring do and mystery in this tale, which adds spice to the usual romantic fare on offer. Our hero is a soldier returned from the wars, ready but not entirely willing to claim his inheritance, a mouldering pile and some grumpy relations. His battle to take his place, restore family honour and clear his name is joined by his slowly but steadily falling in love in the best, old fashioned tradition of not having clue what he is doing until it is too late!
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