Rake's Progress (A House for the Season) - Softcover

Hogarth, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780333080 ISBN 13: 9781780333083

Publisher: Canvas, 1890

Synopsis

[Read by Lindy Nettleton]

Lord Guy Carlton, late of His Majesty's regiment and weary from the war in France, has only wine, women, and song in mind when he rents Number 67 Clarges Street for the season. He certainly has no desire for a serious attachment-- and never marriage! Then his merry eyes spot the lovely but very proper Miss Esther Jones. But what will be her fate if she falls in love with the notorious Lord Guy? Though Esther's business acumen has made her one of the richest women in England, her innocence could make her a victim of the wild ways of the ton-- unless the downstairs staff at Clarges Street devise a campaign to reform the rake who is laying siege to her heart.

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About the Author

M. C. Beaton has won international acclaim for her bestselling Hamish Macbeth mysteries and the Agatha Raisin mystery series. She is also the author of more than one hundred romance titles and a series of romantic suspense novels, the Edwardian Mystery series. Born in Scotland, she now divides her time between Paris and the English Cotswolds.

Reviews

The fourth volume in Chesney's Regency romance series (A House for the Season pits the libertine renters of the seasonal house on Clarges Street against a beautiful but moralistic spinster in a nearby residence. Followers of the series are acquainted with the colorful retainers, led by the butler Rainbird, who constitute the below-stairs "family," and who cope with the antics of their ever-changing employers. This time, rich, womanizing Lord Guy Carlton and his buddy, bent on erasing memories of their experiences in the Napoleonic wars, throw wild parties in the house. The butler disapproves but sees an opportunity for "a good woman to reform a rake" by bringing together the dissipating lord and Miss Esther Jones, a prim beauty who keeps an open Bible on display in her forbidding parlor. Predictably, the reformer's role is reversed; Esther succumbs to the now erstwhile rake, as Chesney once again adroitly manipulates the floating upstairs population that keeps the downstairs on its toes.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

In this fourth volume of a series of six, "A House for the Season," all the elements for a good Regency finally come together. The house at 67 Clarges Street and its domestic staff serves as the linking entity of the series. Rainbird, the butler, heads a motley crew of servants. They have banded together as a family; their aim in life is to buy a pub and leave service behind. Into this menage comes Lord Guy Carlton, invalided home from the Napoleonic Wars. Lots of wine and women are the order of the day for this young buck of the ton. At 120 Berkeley Square resides Miss Esther Jones, repressed spinster of 26, with her young brother and sister. Rainbird et al. connive to bring together this unlikely pair. Add a mistaken identity for my lord's foreign valet and this is a witty, charming, touching bit of Regency froth. Highly recommended. Paula M. Zieselman, Sarah Lawrence Coll. Lib., Bronxville,
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Canvas
• Publication date: 1890
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780333080
• ISBN 13: 9781780333083
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Hogarth William