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Overview

Simon Basset, the irresistible Duke of Hastings, has hatched a plan to keep himself free from the town′s marriage-minded society mothers. He pretends to be engaged to the lovely Daphne Bridgerton. After all, it isn′t as if the brooding rogue has any real plans to marry - though there is something about the alluring Miss Bridgerton that sets Simon′s heart beating a bit faster. And as for Daphne, surely the clever debutante will attract some very worthy suitors now that it seems a duke has declared her desirable. But as Daphne waltzes across ballroom after ballroom with Simon, she soon forgets that their courtship is a complete sham. And now she has to do the impossible and keep herself from losing her heart and soul completely to the handsome hell-raiser who has sworn off marriage forever!

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The Duke and I has everything a romance reader could want: gentle humor, superb writing, a good woman, and a slightly misguided man... The Duke and I is one memorable read.
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Ms. Quinn writes delightfully fast-paced, funny, sparkling, and bright romance.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780380800827
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 1/28/2000
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 90,263
  • Series: Bridgerton Series, #1
  • Product dimensions: 6.72 (w) x 10.88 (h) x 1.03 (d)

Meet the Author

Julia Quinn

Julia Quinn started writing her first book one month after finishing college and has been tapping away at her keyboard ever since.

The New York Times bestselling author of twenty-one novels for Avon Books, she is a graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest.

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The Duke And I

Chapter One

The Bridgertons are by far the most prolific family in upper echelons of society. Such industriousness on the part of the viscountess and the late viscount is commendable, although one can find only banality in their choice of names for their children. Anthony, Benedict, Colin, Daphne, Eloise, Francesca, Gregory, and Hyacinth--orderliness is, of course, beneficial in all things, but one would think that intelligent parents would be able to keep their children straight without needing to alphabetise their names.

Furthermore, the sight of the viscountess and all eight of her children in one room is enough to make one fear one is seeing double-or triple-or worse. Never has This Author seen a collection of siblings so ludicrously alike in their physical regard. Although This Author has never taken the time to record eye colour, all eight possess similar bone structure and the same thick, chestnut hair. One must pity the viscountess as she seeks advantageous marriages for her brood that she did not produce a single child of more fashionable colouring. Still, there are advantages to a family of such consistent looks-there can be no doubt that all eight are of legitimate parentage.

Ah, Gentle Reader, your devoted Author wishes that that were the case amid all large families ...

Lady Whistledown′s Society Papers,

26 APRIL 1813

Ooooooooohhhhhhhhh!" Violet Bridgerton crumpled the single-page newspaper into a hall and hurled it across the elegant drawing room.

Her daughter Daphne wisely made no comment and pretended to be engrossed in her embroidery.

"Did you read what she said?" Violet demanded. "Did you?"

Daphne eyed the ball of paper, which now rested under a mahogany end table. "I didn′t have the opportunity before you, er, finished with it."

"Read it, then," Violet wailed, her arm slicing dramatically through the air. "Read how that woman has maligned us."

Daphne calmly set down her embroidery and reached under the end table. She smoothed the sheet of paper out on her lap and read the paragraph about her family. Blinking, she looked up. "This isn′t so bad, Mother. In fact, it′s a veritable benediction compared to what she wrote about the Featheringtons last week."

"How am I supposed to find you a husband while that woman is slandering your name?"

Daphne forced herself to exhale. After nearly two seasons in London, the mere mention of the word husband was enough to set her temples pounding. She wanted to marry, truly she did, and she wasn′t even holding out for a true love match. But was it really too much to hope for a husband for whom one had at least some affection?

Thus far, four men had asked for her hand, but when Daphne had thought about living the rest of her days in the company of any of them, she just couldn′t do it. There were a number of men she thought might make reasonably good husbands, but the problem was--none of them was interested. Oh, they all liked her. Everyone liked her. Everyone thought she was funny and kind and a quick wit, and no one thought her the least bit unattractive, but at the same time, no one was dazzled by her beauty, stunned into speechlessness by her presence, or moved to write poetry in her honour.

Men, she thought with disgust, were interested only in those women who terrified them. No one seemed inclined to court someone like her. They all adored her, or so they said, because she was so easy to talk to, and she always seemed to understand how a man felt. As one of the men Daphne had thought might make a reasonably good husband had said, "Deuce take it, Daff, you′re just not like regular females. You′re positively normal."

Which she might have managed to consider a compliment if he hadn′t proceeded to wander off in search of the latest blond beauty.

Daphne looked down and noticed that her hand was clenched into a fist. Then she looked up and realised her mother was staring at her, clearly waiting for her to say something. Since she had already exhaled, Daphne cleared her throat, and said, "I′m sure Lady Whistledown′s little column is not going to hurt my chances for a husband."

"Daphne, it′s been two years!"

"And Lady Whistledown has only been publishing for three months, so I hardly see how we can lay the blame at her door."

"I′ll lay the blame wherever I choose," Violet muttered.

Daphne′s fingernails bit her palms as she willed herself not to make a retort. She knew her mother had only her best interests at heart, she knew her mother loved her. And she loved her mother, too. In fact, until Daphne had reached marriageable age, Violet had been positively the best of mothers. She still was, when she wasn′t despairing over the fact that after Daphne she had three more daughters to marry off.

Violet pressed a delicate hand to her chest. "She cast aspersions on your parentage."

"No," Daphne said slowly. It was always wise to proceed with caution when contradicting her mother. "Actually, what she said was that there could be no doubt that we are all legitimate. Which is more than one can say for most large families of the ton."

"She shouldn′t have even brought it up," Violet sniffed.

"Mother, she′s the author of a scandal sheet. It′s her job to bring such things up."

"She isn′t even a real person," Violet added angrily. She planted her hands on her slim hips, then changed her mind and shook her finger in the air. "Whistledown, ha! I′ve never heard of any Whistledowns. Whoever this depraved woman is, I doubt she′s one of us. As if anyone of breeding would write such wicked lies."

"Of course she′s one of us," Daphne said, her brown eyes filling with amusement. "If she weren′t a member of the ton, there is no way she′d be privy to the sort of news she reports. Did you think she was some sort Of impostor, peeking in windows and listening at doors?"

The Duke And I. Copyright © by Julia Quinn. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

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First Chapter

The Duke and I

Chapter One

The Bridgertons are by far the most prolific family in upper echelons of society. Such industriousness on the part of the viscountess and the late viscount is commendable, although one can find only banality in their choice of names for their children. Anthony, Benedict, Colin, Daphne, Eloise, Francesca, Gregory, and Hyacinth--orderliness is, of course, beneficial in all things, but one would think that intelligent parents would be able to keep their children straight without needing to alphabetize their names.

Furthermore, the sight of the viscountess and all eight of her children in one room is enough to makeone fear one is seeing double-or triple-or worse. Never has This Author seen a collection of siblings so ludicrously alike in their physical regard. Although This Author has never taken the time to record eye color, all eight possess similar bone structure and the same thick, chestnut hair. One must pity the viscountess as she seeks advantageous marriages for her brood that she did not produce a single child of more fashionable coloring. Still, there are advantages to a family of such consistent looks-there can be no doubt that all eight are of legitimate parentage.

Ah, Gentle Reader, your devoted Author wishes that that were the case amid all large families ...

Lady Whistledown's Society Papers, 26 APRIL 1813

Ooooooooohhhhhhhhh!" Violet Bridgerton crumpled the single-page newspaper into a hall and hurled it across the elegant drawing room.

Her daughter Daphne wisely made no comment and pretended to be engrossed in her embroidery.

"Did you read what she said?" Violet demanded. "Did you?"

Daphne eyed the ball of paper, which now rested under a mahogany end table. "I didn't have the opportunity before you, er, finished with it."

"Read it, then," Violet wailed, her arm slicing dramatically through the air. "Read how that woman has maligned us."

Daphne calmly set down her embroidery and reached under the end table. She smoothed the sheet of paper out on her lap and read the paragraph about her family. Blinking, she looked up. "This isn't so bad, Mother. In fact, it's a veritable benediction compared to what she wrote about the Featheringtons last week."

"How am I supposed to find you a husband while that woman is slandering your name?"

Daphne forced herself to exhale. After nearly two seasons in London, the mere mention of the word husband was enough to set her temples pounding. She wanted to marry, truly she did, and she wasn't even holding out for a true love match. But was it really too much to hope for a husband for whom one had at least some affection?

Thus far, four men had asked for her hand, but when Daphne had thought about living the rest of her days in the company of any of them, she just couldn't do it. There were a number of men she thought might make reasonably good husbands, but the problem was--none of them was interested. Oh, they all liked her. Everyone liked her. Everyone thought she was funny and kind and a quick wit, and no one thought her the least bit unattractive, but at the same time, no one was dazzled by her beauty, stunned into speechlessness by her presence, or moved to write poetry in her honor.

Men, she thought with disgust, were interested only in those women who terrified them. No one seemed inclined to court someone like her. They all adored her, or so they said, because she was so easy to talk to, and she always seemed to understand how a man felt. As one of the men Daphne had thought might make a reasonably good husband had said, "Deuce take it, Daff, you're just not like regular females. You're positively normal."

Which she might have managed to consider a compliment if he hadn't proceeded to wander off in search of the latest blond beauty.

Daphne looked down and noticed that her hand was clenched into a fist. Then she looked up and realized her mother was staring at her, clearly waiting for her to say something. Since she had already exhaled, Daphne cleared her throat, and said, "I'm sure Lady Whistledown's little column is not going to hurt my chances for a husband."

"Daphne, it's been two years!"

"And Lady Whistledown has only been publishing for three months, so I hardly see how we can lay the blame at her door."

"I'll lay the blame wherever I choose," Violet muttered.

Daphne's fingernails bit her palms as she willed herself not to make a retort. She knew her mother had only her best interests at heart, she knew her mother loved her. And she loved her mother, too. In fact, until Daphne had reached marriageable age, Violet had been positively the best of mothers. She still was, when she wasn't despairing over the fact that after Daphne she had three more daughters to marry off.

Violet pressed a delicate hand to her chest. "She cast aspersions on your parentage."

"No," Daphne said slowly. It was always wise to proceed with caution when contradicting her mother. "Actually, what she said was that there could be no doubt that we are all legitimate. Which is more than one can say for most large families of the ton."

"She shouldn't have even brought it up," Violet sniffed.

"Mother, she's the author of a scandal sheet. It's her job to bring such things up."

"She isn't even a real person," Violet added angrily. She planted her hands on her slim hips, then changed her mind and shook her finger in the air. "Whistledown, ha! I've never heard of any Whistledowns. Whoever this depraved woman is, I doubt she's one of us. As if anyone of breeding would write such wicked lies."

"Of course she's one of us," Daphne said, her brown eyes filling with amusement. "If she weren't a member of the ton, there is no way she'd be privy to the sort of news she reports. Did you think she was some sort Of impostor, peeking in windows and listening at doors?"

The Duke and I. Copyright © by Julia Quinn. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.
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  • Posted December 9, 2008

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    Witty Regency romance

    In 1813, Simon Basset, the duke of Hastings, is prime meat for the mothers of débutantes and is front-page news for the gossipmongers of the ton. Everyone seems to need to read the recurring installments of Simon¿s non-matrimonial life as described by columnist Lady Whistledown. Rumors abound that the bachelor has selected a fiancee, a veritable nobody named Daphne Bridgerton.

    Actually, Simon and Daphne have cut a deal to pretend they will be getting married. He is no longer a candidate for every mother and she has the opportunity of meeting beaus since she has been relegated upward by a duke. Daphne does not want to marry anyone except the love of her life. Simon wants to marry no one. However, neither one accounted for love exploding between them when they first made their agreement.

    Very few writers are on a par with witty Julia Quinn (see HOW TO MARRY A MARQUIS) when it comes to a humorous, entertaining Regency romance. The mighty Quinn¿s latest novel, THE DUKE AND I is a jocular tale that will leave sub-genre fans fully satiated yet desiring more works, especially starring Lady Whistledown and her column.

    Harriet Klausner

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    Posted December 15, 2011

    Scenes were too graphic. Not necessary - Otherwise a great story!

    I can not recommend this book due to the graphic sex scenes. Ruins the book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 4, 2007

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    This is the first book that I read by Julia Quinn! And I fell in love with her writing, it is soooo good. The story line was interesting and very enjoyable. The characters were funny and felt like real people. It was just amazing and I have been trying to get my hands on all of Julia Quinns books!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 11, 2007

    One of my Faves

    this was a very good romance novel, that introduced us to the Bridgertons. Wonderful family. Simon has a lot of issues but I was glad that Daphne was there to help him.

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  • Posted January 18, 2012

    Highly Recommended

    If you like Series Books these are the books for you. With a infamous author who writes down everything about everyone at every ball to the oldest daugther of the Bridgerton Family to the Duke of Hastings. A good love story is in here also and friendship and love for the family. I have also read: The Duke And I 2nd Epilogue, The Viscount Who Loved Me, The Viscount Who Loved Me 2nd Epilogue, An Offer From A Gentlemen, An Offer From A Gentlemen 2nd Epilogue.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 27, 2011

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    I LOVE Julia Quinn. This was a fabulous read. Cant wait to read about the rest of the family!!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 14, 2011

    recommend highly

    This is the beginning story about the Bridgerton family, Julia Quinn writes with humor, sadness, and great happy endings. This book is a pleasure to read and makes you want to read about the rest of the Bridgerton family.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 9, 2011

    Enjoyable read

    Creative and enjoyable story for romance genre. I would read other books by this author.

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  • Posted August 29, 2011

    Light-hearted and fun

    I enjoyed the dynamics between the characters.

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  • Posted May 28, 2011

    Good Enough

    This romance is highly favored, although it is not awful I found it a rather bland reading. This is a rather tedious, trite Disney-esque novel. Yawn

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  • Posted January 18, 2011

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    The best of the Bridgerton series

    This story was interesting from the beginning. This book is for the lighthearted, comedy, romance novelist that enjoy a little sizzle in the story as well.

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  • Posted July 21, 2010

    Superb!

    This book is absolutely superb. I started reading this morning and I am hooked. Sadly, I have no battery power on my nook (ahhhhhhhh!!!!) so I will have to finish when I get home. No more ad hoc break from work ;)
    Ms. Quinn writing style is captivating. I immediately fell in love with the characters; their strength and wittiness. Thus far one of the best books I've read in a while. Can't wait to finish!

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  • Posted July 16, 2010

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    I LOVE the Bridgerton Series!

    Simon Bassett and Daphne Bridgerton were just meant for each other! Forbidden love, of course, because Simon is Daphne's older brother Anthony's best friend. And best friends do NOT lust after another's sister...well, Simon just had to do the wrong thing and fall in love with Daphne (and visa versa), and the story is truly witting, sensual, and breathtakingly romantic. I loved the entire Bridgerton family series of romances and can only hope that Julia Quinn will continue on and write more about them.

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  • Posted April 12, 2010

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    Our First Introduction to the Bridgertons

    The Duke and I is a wonderful beginning to Julia Quinn's marvelous series featuring the Bridgerton family. Daphne is a strong heroine; she's smart, funny, and willing to do almost anything to save the man she loves. Simon Basset is a good man still battling the scars of an abusive childhood. Their mock courtship that develops into true love is a joy to read, written with humor and emotional depth. However, the true heart of this novel lies in the Bridgerton family, especially with Daphne's interactions with her brothers. An excellent book, guaranteed to please all people who love books, regardless of how you feel about romance novels in general!

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  • Posted February 16, 2010

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    Good Start

    I am starting to really like Julia...at least this group about the Bridgerton Family. I loved Simon and Daphne was funny and endearing. Very nice.

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  • Posted May 20, 2009

    A DUKE FORCED TO MARRY FINDS IT DIFFICULT TO KEEP HIS LIFE LONG VOW - NEVER TO PRODUCE AN HEIR - A MYSTERY AND A CHALLENGE - WHAT FUN

    This was an unusual love story where the Duke, Simon Basset is forced to marry Daphne Bridgerton, but he reveals that he can never produce children; she is disheartened but she loves him and she is so naive. After she is married and talks to the Duke's staff she learns how his father thought him stupid and didn't acknowledge Simon; he spent his youth trying to gain approval and acceptance of his father. It was not until Simon earned high grades at Oxford that his father tried to seek him out, but it was too late; Simon left London to go on tour and did not return until his father died. Daphne felt so badly for Simon, but as the time passed Daphne learned something else about her husband it wasn't that he couldn't produce children he refused to. Daphne is outraged and a battle of words and wit ensues. You should not miss reading it as truths are revealed and love and hate war with each other. Worth reading. Well done.

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  • Posted May 12, 2009

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    Thank you Julia Quinn for winsome immersion!!

    Julia knows how to bring you into her stories - you can visualize the characters and their details because the author illustrates your imagination with her gift of writing. You won't be able to put this down, and if you do - it won't be long before you pick it right back up. One of my favorites. Thank you. Amy Nymark

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 11, 2009

    I love this book

    The story of Simon and Daphne was so enjoyable to read. They are so cute together. I like how her brothers are there for her and protecting her. But this was another great book from Julia Quinn. She is now my favorite author.

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  • Posted January 9, 2009

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    Loved It

    The Duke and I made me fall in love with Julia Quinn's writing. This was the first book I read written by her. I was just plain good. I loved it! I was happy to find out she wrote a book for each bridgerton child.

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