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Overview

One of readers', librarians' and booksellers' most frequently requested Heyers, The Foundling features Gilly, the seventh Duke of Sale.

A diffident young man of 24 years, easily pushed around by his overprotective uncle and the retinue of devoted family retainers who won't let him lift a finger for himself, the Duke sometimes wishes he could be a commoner. One day he decides to set out to discover whether he is "a man, or only a Duke."

Beginning with an incognito journey into the countryside to confront a blackmailer, he encounters a runaway school boy, a beautiful but airheaded orphan, one of literature's most appealing and well-spoken comic villains, and a series of alarming and even life threatening events from which he can extricate himself only with the help of his shy and lovely fiancé…

PRAISE FOR GEORGETTE HEYER:

"Our Georgette Heyer display of the Sourcebooks reprints has been a huge success, not only to those early fans like myself, but to many new readers who appreciate her style and wit."
Nancy Olson, Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC

"Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."
Publishers Weekly

"Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to."
Katie Fforde

"Absolute monarch of the Regency romance."
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781402219481
  • Publisher: Sourcebooks, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 9/1/2009
  • Pages: 448
  • Sales rank: 130,215
  • Product dimensions: 8.02 (w) x 5.36 (h) x 1.15 (d)

Meet the Author

The late Georgette Heyer was a very private woman. Her novels have charmed and delighted millions of readers for decades, though she rarely reached out to the public to discuss her works or personal life. She was born in Wimbledon in August 1902. She wrote her first novel, The Black Moth, at the age of seventeen to amuse her convalescent brother; it was published in 1921 and became an instant success.

Heyer published 56 books over the next 53 years, until her death from lung cancer in 1974. Her work included Regency romances, mysteries and historical fiction. Known as the Queen of Regency romance, Heyer was legendary for her research, historical accuracy and her extraordinary plots and characterizations. Her last book, My Lord John, was published posthumously in 1975. She was married to George Ronald Rougier, a barrister, and they had one son, Richard.

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The Founding

By Georgette Heyer

Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.

Copyright © 2003 Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.
All right reserved.
ISBN: 0373835493

Chapter One

I can't tell you exactly how old I was when I first read Georgette Heyer's The Foundling, but I do know it was in my early teens, when I was reading anything and everything I could get my hands on. Most of those long-ago books were quickly read and just as quickly forgotten.

A few stuck with me. A very few. And of those, even fewer authors whose work I avidly searched for in libraries and bookstores, and collected to place on my own bookshelves.

It was, admittedly, a long time ago. Before the Internet made finding copies of out-of-print books so easy. Before I had an actual paying job that enabled me to buy as many books as I wanted to own. In those days, collecting books was difficult for me, and few authors made the cut.

Georgette Heyer was, literally, the first. The first author whose work I not only collected, but bought second, third and even fourth copies of each title. Those early copies became fragile, you see, because I read them so many times, and I could never, ever throw a Heyer away just because it threatened to fall to bits if opened just one more time. They were Keepers, period.

So I'd somehow earn the money to buy a new copy, and put the old, tattered one gently on a shelf among my other Heyers. A treasure.

To this day, I still reread those books. I'll pick one up in an idle way, and the next thing I know I'm curled up in the nearest chair happily absorbed, transported to Regency England and surrounded by lords and ladies. Marveling at the amazingly three-dimensional characters Heyer brought to life and fascinated by her masterly grasp of human nature.

That first book leads to the next, and the next - and I find myself reading them all over again. Every few years, it seems, I have a Heyer-fest. And I enjoy the novels even more on the tenth or fifteenth reading than I did the first.

The thing about Heyer is that her characters are real people. They may be dressed as lords and ladies, and they may live in a society where the rules of behavior at least appear to be rigidly enforced, but Heyer's characters are as real as your family and friends, as real as the people in your own neighborhood.

Take, for instance, Adolphus Gillespie Vernon Ware, Duke of Sale. Grand-sounding name, isn't it? And from the moment of the twenty-four-year-old duke's birth, that grand name came attached not only to several other lofty titles, but also numerous vast estates - including a castle - much wealth, fond relations and many servants eager to indulge the duke's every whim.

But as you'll discover in The Foundling, Gilly is entirely fed up with being a grand duke with grand estates and surrounded by far, far too many people who insist he stand on his own two feet even as they fret that he might get those feet wet and catch a chill. Weary of his status and all the oppressive duties that go along with it, Gilly feels fenced in, restrained to the point of having no freedom at all.

He longs for an adventure. Even more, Gilly wonders what it would be like not to be a duke and have everyone around him bowing and eager to please. He wonders what it would be like to be simply "plain Mr. Dash, of Nowhere in Particular."

In typically amusing Heyer fashion, Gilly is given the opportunity to find out what it would be like to live as an average man without the grand titles and estates and wealth. And in so doing, the young Duke of Sale discovers who and what he really is.

Gilly is one of my all-time favorite Heyer heroes, because in the conventional sense, he isn't at all "heroic." He isn't tall, isn't dark, isn't particularly handsome, and when you first meet him he seems mild to the point of meekness. Not especially shy, but so self-effacing you'd never notice him in a crowd. And in a romance novel, you'd see him as the hero's friend, perhaps, or the heroine's younger brother.

But heroic? Gilly?

As a matter of fact ... yes. And how he becomes that hero is a lively adventure not to be missed, filled with humor and touched with just enough danger to make the journey even more entertaining.

As for Gilly's heroine, let's just say she isn't who you might expect her to be. In fact, she isn't who Gilly expects her to be, either. But she is, in the end, absolutely perfect for him.

Find a nice, comfortable place to curl up with this delight of a novel, and expect to be there a while, because you are not going to want to leave. If The Foundling is your first Georgette Heyer novel, congratulations - and I envy you a wonderful new world to explore.

You're gonna love it.

(Continues...)


Excerpted from The Founding by Georgette Heyer Copyright © 2003 by Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.
Excerpted by permission. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 15, 2009

    A personal Favorite: real hero is the male lead

    The Foundling is my personal favorite Heyer: perhaps not the best written (The Grand Sophy, A Civil Contract, An Infamous Army and, of course, These Old Shades are better literature) but this is my favorite. I'm delighted it's coming back into print as my old, used copy I bought in Scotland years ago is falling to bits. Perhaps I like this book of hers because the focus and point of view of the book is not on a heroine. Belinda, the foundling in question, is a brainless but nice (and comedic) foil for the real, hero: Gilly the Duke of Sale. I am most fascinated by the family relationship Heyer has developed here between Gilly, his cousin Gideon and Gideon's father (who's also Gilly's old guardian). The book rollicks along as Gilly learns to stand up for himself in the face of his over-bearing (but kind) uncle and his favorite cousin. Rather than casting the relatives (and, of course, the loyal servants from childhood) as scheming nasties, they are flesh and blood, strong-minded individuals convinced from affection that they know what is good for Gilly. A real, pleasurable book!

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  • Posted May 11, 2011

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    Loved It!

    This is my second Georgette Heyer book, I recently stumbled upon "Arabella" and fell in love with it. I immediately picked up The Foundling after. From what I've heard, most of her books are Regency Romance. This book however, is more a "coming of age" story. The title is a bit misleading, its not really about a Foundling...she's only a minor character. The real lead here is the Duke of Sale...he wants to discover what it's like to be a normal person from no where in particular. He gets himself in all kinds of trouble in this magnificent tale! Can't wait to start another Heyer! It makes me sad that people are so unaware of her books...I wish more people knew about them.

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  • Posted August 7, 2010

    One of my favorites

    Unlikely hero and heroine for regency novels. Their qualities emerge through the events of the book. I find myself rereading this book. I will be glad to have it on my nook so I do not have to purchase it again!

    Heyer is an author of an earlier age. The most sexual content is a chaste kiss for most of her novels. Her character portrayal and development are delightful. You will recognize the qualities in many of her characters as being similar to those in your own family/friends.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 6, 2003

    Really good - an amusing read

    I'm a big Heyer fan, so pretty much any book of hers is okayed by me. I liked this one a lot, though not as much as some of the others I've read. It doesn't focus on balls and 'fashionable life', which is nice, and Belinda (the beauty) is well represented - not a paragon, but not spiteful either... just feather-brained. I didn't like the heroine as much as some of Heyer's others - she was a bit wishy-washy - but she was all right. I REALLY liked Gilly!

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