Publication

1977 - distributed by Putnam, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

53,750 words, Guess

Page Count

215 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC813/.5/4
  • LCCPZ4.H6456 Sw
  • LCCPS3558.I3877; Sw

Description

To sweet Honoria Newcombe, the news that she was a burden to her maiden aunts came as a shock, and she resolved at once to relieve her beloved aunts of the financial strain she had unwittingly become. Honoria confers with her friend Emily Blackwood, who realizes Honoria's only hope is marriage. And so Honoria enters into a marriage of convenience with Alexander, Emily's own brother. This begins a comedy of errors so involved that nearly a year is required to unravel its tangled intricacies. Our heroine starts her life at Sweet's Folly, the Blackwood family home, and must learn to deal with the machinations of her spurned suitor, Claude Kemp, and the hilarious antics of her aunts. And, when a stroke of great good fortune sends Emily, Alexander, and Honoria to London, there is also a most extraordinary transformation to be reckoned with: shy, scholarly Alexander has become a perfect devil with the ladies!

Subjects

People

Claude KempEmily BlackwoodHonoria NewcombeAlexander Blackwood

Times

Other Editions

  • Sweet's Follydistributed by Putnam1977-01-01

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