These Old Shades
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Alexander Vlahos
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Georgette Heyer
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These Old Shades is read by Alexander Vlahos, star of Versailles.
Leonie Bonnard is being drawn into a twenty-year-old feud.
Justin Alastair, the Duke of Avon, is a reprehensible rake with an axe to grind. Decades ago the Comte de Saint-Vire did something unforgivable and ever since Justin has been lying in wait to settle the score.
When Justin meets Leon, a street urchin with a striking resemblance to his nemesis, he aims to use him as a pawn in his plans for revenge on the Comte. Except Leon is in fact Leonie, a beautiful young ingénue who may just steal Justin's heart.
Can Leonie win the Duke's affection, or will his need for revenge overcome them both?
©1926 Georgette Heyer (P)2021 Penguin AudioKritikerstimmen
"One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's." (Joanne Harris)
"Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes.... Utter, immersive escapism." (Sophie Kinsella)
"Léonie, hot-tempered and very much her own woman, is one of Heyer's best female leads[...]The novel remains a witty, vivid page turner." (Melanie Reid)
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Captivating & engrossing novel
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I enjoyed the recording, although as others have said, it is a pity nobody taught the speaker even the basics of French pronunciation. His voice is not at all how I had imagined the Duke of Avon, but it made me think of Avon in a different, interesting way: younger, more playful, more effete in a Wildean kind of way. I liked that!
NOT politically correct, but -
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And why do so many performers think they have to depict French characters by making them speak English with a very bad French accent - in situations where obviously everyone is speaking French???
I love the story but having to listen to so much bad French threw me constantly out of it.
Do learn French pronunciation, please!
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Wunderbare Hörbuchversion
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It's not the first time I have read "These Old Shades" by Georgette Heyer. Next to "Devil's Cub", it's one of her best novels, from my point of view. Usually, I don't tend to read love novels, as they're often too shallow for my taste. But Georgette Heyer knows how to combine witty and intelligent language with a romantic plot with well-developed characters. All in all, this makes it a very entertaining read. Georgette Heyer was one of the wittiest and most observant writers ever, and her novels surely mirror that.
I also really enjoyed listening to the audiobook. Alexander Vlahos is the best choice to read this novel, as he brilliantly captures the wit, irony, and attitudes of the characters. His voice has an excellent vocal sound: present enough for this wonderful interpretation, but not too dominant to keep you from dwelling in your own fantasy while listening.
Superb
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