Simon the Coldheart [Hardcover]

Georgette HEYER (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Heinemann; Cheaper ed. edition (1927)
• ASIN: B000J4566K
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, making the Regency period her own. Her first novel, "The Black Moth," published in 1921, was written at the age of fifteen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.

Customer Reviews

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45 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my two all-time favorite books!, February 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Simon the Coldheart (Library Binding)

(My other favorite is Charlotte's Web, by E.B.White, which is of course totally different from Simon the Coldheart!) Most of Georgette Heyer's books are set in Regency England, and she herself did not consider "Simon" to be one of her best efforts, asking that it not be re-printed. I am glad her kids got together and decided to re-print "Simon" because it is a totally unique blend of medieval life, adventure, romance, and character studies. Simon himself is a larger-than-life hero who walks straight through the front door and into the reader's memory for a lifetime! As my 10-year-old daughter observed when she read it, "Mom, I love this book! That Simon's a man and a half!"

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Did Heyer want this book published?, March 21, 2002

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C. J. Wyckoff "cjwriterandreader" (Issaquah, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Simon the Coldheart (Library Binding)

Georgette Heyer wrote so many wonderful books that I recommend you skip this one, unless you are trying to read the whole oeuvre or are a serious scholar of the progress of her writing style. It is set in medieval times (as is her unfinished and rarely read history, Lord John) and her gift for dialog and characterization seems to be lost beneath the weight of the armor. If I remember right, according to her biography, The Private World of Georgette Heyer, this book was an early effort which she did not wish to be published. Instead, go on to one of her other novels. For mysteries, I recommend Blunt Instrument or Who Killed the Butler; for romances, any of the historical ones. And if you are new to Miss Heyer's work, you have many blissful hours ahead of you.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simon the Coldheart is a fine read!, March 31, 2001

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Rebecca Brown "rebeccasreads" (Clallam Bay, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Simon the Coldheart (Hardcover)

Simon the Coldheart is now rarely in print - sadly Dame Heyer's cardboard mysteries are more often available than this her one foray into medieval life & times when she delved into the Norman Conquest & produced a remarkable, enduring tale of the clash of two cultures.

No quarter was given in those times - not from men, not from women & they loved & fought in the only way they knew - with honor & duty &, that strangely new emotion, courtly love!

Fascinating & worth finding!