I never knew Georgette Heyer wrote short stories on top of the prodigious number of full length novels she wrote over her career, until after I bought this book at a used book shop. 11 short stories, all entertaining, but average, with Gretna Green and comedic misunderstandings playing heavily thr...
Read this on the overseas trip. I really liked a few of the stories, all of which are basically the plots of her full-length novels, so you can get a good feel for her work and if you will like it from this without investing hours of time. Read March 17-18, 2013
Pistols for Two is a collection of short stories by Georgette Heyer. Most, though not all, are romance-oriented, and I believe all are set in her favored Regency period. This mixture of clandestine elopements, duels, strange inns, and the trials of the road are all what you would expect to find i...
I know that LMM and GH are two different authors that barely have things in common: one was inspired in little towns set in Canada, the other in Regency era set in Great Britain. But this book is certainly a "Kindred Spirit", and has a resemblance to the short stories I enjoy reading so much, writte...
This was really fun. I mostly read a story a night, which was the best way to do it. Taken in one go, they got sort of repetitive, bu tone by one they were a lot of fun. I loved the story about the young friends in love with the same girl best.
Heyer's right; her short stories are not as good as her novels. In short stories she can really only fit in the romance. You don't get her fab cast of characters, the plot twists and turns, the heaping of crazy situations that the characters get themselves caught up in.
Short stories, which I always expect to like more than I do. I think that in general short story collections tend to not hold to a second reading for me. [Sept. 2010]
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