Jeanne of the Marshes Edward Phillips Oppenheim Charles Edmund Brock 9781117735115 Books
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Jeanne of the Marshes Edward Phillips Oppenheim Charles Edmund Brock 9781117735115 Books
This is a light book, but with reasonably interesting plot. When a major event proved tamer than I supposed, I felt a little ashamed at my modern expectation for prompt violence. Maybe the weakest aspect is the good-guys/bad-guys division among the characters. Although the author did soften that hard edge, he was only partly successful. I say "not just for chicks" because it wasn't sappy and there weren't any swooning women or seduction schemes. More than one romantic couple is involved, but they're not equally wholesome.Product details
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Jeanne of the Marshes Edward Phillips Oppenheim Charles Edmund Brock 9781117735115 Books Reviews
Scoundrels and Scams in Norfolk and London
Jeanne de la Mesurier is 19 years old, and heiress to a vast fortune. She has left the convent in France where she has lived since her father died, and joined her stepmother in London. Her stepmother is Ena, Princess of Strurm, who is determined to present Jeanne to London society, and to find her a wealthy husband. The Princess, however well born, is a pauper and a scam artist, in league with Major Forrest, a card sharp and bridge hustler.
Thinking to earn some ready cash by preying on the young Lord Ronald Engleton, they decamp to an old manor house on the Norfolk coast, owned by Cecil de la Borne, another impecunious ne'er-do-well. The house is owned by Cecil's brother Andrew, a hale and hearty fisherman, graduate of Eton, and lover of nature.
The first half of the novel is quite funny. Oppenheim humorously portrays the moral flexibility and social manipulations of the impoverished aristocracy.
Oppenheim bought a house on the Norfolk coast after selling his leather business and devoting himself full time to writing. He learned to sail, and in many of his novels, wrote fondly of the people and nature of the Northeast of England.
1909
Scoundrels and Scams in Norfolk and London
Jeanne de la Mesurier is 19 years old, and heiress to a vast fortune. She has left the convent in France where she has lived since her father died, and joined her stepmother in London. Her stepmother is Ena, Princess of Strurm, who is determined to present Jeanne to London society, and to find her a wealthy husband. The Princess, however well born, is a pauper and a scam artist, in league with Major Forrest, a card sharp and bridge hustler.
Thinking to earn some ready cash by preying on the young Lord Ronald Engleton, they decamp to an old manor house on the Norfolk coast, owned by Cecil de la Borne, another impecunious ne'er-do-well. The house is owned by Cecil's brother Andrew, a hale and hearty fisherman, graduate of Eton, and lover of nature.
The first half of the novel is quite funny. Oppenheim humorously portrays the moral flexibility and social manipulations of the impoverished aristocracy.
Oppenheim bought a house on the Norfolk coast after selling his leather business and devoting himself full time to writing. He learned to sail, and in many of his novels, wrote fondly of the people and nature of the Northeast of England.
1909
This is a light book, but with reasonably interesting plot. When a major event proved tamer than I supposed, I felt a little ashamed at my modern expectation for prompt violence. Maybe the weakest aspect is the good-guys/bad-guys division among the characters. Although the author did soften that hard edge, he was only partly successful. I say "not just for chicks" because it wasn't sappy and there weren't any swooning women or seduction schemes. More than one romantic couple is involved, but they're not equally wholesome.
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