The Foundling

By Georgette Heyer,

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The Queen of Regency Romance, Georgette Heyer, delights readers with a charming tale of a duke who is tired of playing by the rules.

The Duke of Sale is out to prove himself

The shy, young Duke of Sale has never known his parents. Instead, his Grace Adolphus Gillespie Vernon…

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1 author picked The Foundling as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The hero of this book, The Duke of Sale, has always wondered what it would be like to be plain Mr Dash of nowhere in particular. 

He gets his wish after encountering Belinda, the foundling of the title, and goes on an adventure during which he learns a lot about himself and his own worth. As so often happens in a Heyer story, the comic interludes (often involving Belinda’s wish to own a purple dress) build to an ending which has an air of farce to it.

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