The nabob's widow [Hardcover]

Elsie Lee (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 269 pages
• Publisher: Delacorte Press (1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0440063051
• ISBN-13: 978-0440063056
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.5 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,462,028 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Down Memory Lane, July 23, 2003

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Susan Smith (A small rural village in the English Midlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Nabob's Widow (Paperback)

Today is my day for wallowing in the past and checking out a few things I read far too many years ago. I see that a second-hand copy of this book now costs an extortionate amount! Well, mine will stay on the keeper shelf, thank you! I started reading Elsie Lee in high school and think I have every book she wrote carefully packed away. But, without doubt (with a nod to Second Season), this one was my favourite of her regency stories. Her contemporary novels were vaguely "suspense" stories but, in my opinion, she really hit her forte with her regency-set novels.

Elsie Lee will always be remembered by me for witty writing and crisp, clever dialogue. This is the story of a handsome and witty marquess who returns to London to find his uncle's 20 year old widow, siamese cats and various servants ensconced in his townhouse having just returned from India. The action takes place over Christmas (always a favourite time frame for me) and brings in a large and well-drawn extended family.

Faith Baldwin was quoted on the back cover my my copy as saying "an enchanting book ... it has wit, humor, marvelous characterisations and atmosphere". Indeed it does. Would I pay to replace my copy? Yes!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best regencies ever!, June 13, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The nabob's widow (Hardcover)

This is one of the best regency novels ever written, on a par with Georgette Heyer's best.

Unusally written from the hero's point of view, from where his uncle's "little dab" of a young widow comes into his life with her ladies companion, hindu servants, talking bird, mongoose and two siamese cats (oh, those cats!), it abounds with wit and humor. The change in this lord's life, from ennui to awareness of his own desires, and the machinations of the Nabob's Widow with his family and friends, are a pure joy to read.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorites for 30 yrs, October 30, 2010

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jk202 (Oakland, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Nabob's Widow (Paperback)

This is a novel that the publisher should re-issue ASAP. It is hands-down one of the most well-written, amusing, and elegant Regencies ever written, as good as Georgette Heyer at her best. It's a stinging rebuke to the many current authors who can only write endless overwrought sex scenes with the same hack characters and tired adjectives. My copy is falling apart, and I would dearly love to have a back-up copy. It is a Regency romance at its very best, witty and charming with vivid, well-defined characters who act like real people, not melodramatic nitwits.