It is urgent to ban all Harlequin and similar touching Georgette Heyer

It is urgent to ban all Harlequin and similar touching Georgette Heyer

Adorable Sophie (Paperback)

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Alas, the promises of labominable cover of this book are held by the appalling translation - the word "treason" would never be applied as well as the crime against literature - we stand without also pay the rights, as they admit we ingenuously on the cover page, the murderers of Milady collection. (Quick, a hot iron!)

It starts with an image bank photo representing a defeated candidate for the crown of Miss International Agricultural Show, along with a title that can translate "The Grand Sophy" ("Sophie the Beautiful") by "Adorable Sophy. " Then, it's worse. Much worse.

Style is more than cutesy Delly, more dated than the Max Veuzit, and includes more than a false sense Cope speech in English. Impossible, as these "Pardi", these "since" and those "frank and pure as gold", to find any trace of the elegance of the writing of Heyer. It is no coincidence that renowned writers, Margaret Drabble, AS Byatt, Max Reinhardt, praised his qualities. His account of the battle of Waterloo, "An Infamous Army", is still used today by the teachers of the British military academy at Sandhurst: each historical or sociological detail mentioned in passing in Heyer's novels is the result of incomparable erudition in the period it was his, from 1760 to 1830, but that is never leveled at the reader. To this is added a lightweight comic talent served by impeccable construction, twists adjusted to the millimeter. Often cited and justly Jane Austen: Heyer is actually the quintessentially British confluence of Austen and PG Wodehouse.

A delicate mechanism suffers no DIY: gold here, half turns of phrases that make the best Georgette unparalleled charm are simply placed at the door (weep, fans of Downton Abbey: You will lose, among many others , delicious thoughts of Butler, in his heart, on the scenes which he attends with impassivity required a stylish butler). Should submit what remains to the Directorate General for Competition, Consumption and Fraud Control: this is not the Georgette Heyer, is a misdemeanor.

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