Book description
The only question which hangs over the life of Sir Richard Wyndham,
notable whip, dandy and Corinthian, is one of marriage. On the eve of
making the most momentous decision of his life, he is on his way home,
a little worse for drink, when he chances upon a beautiful young
fugitive climbing out of a window by means of knotted sheets - and so
finds a perfect opportunity for his own escape.
The Corinthian has eveything that Georgette Heyer's devoted
readership came to expect and that made her one of the most popular
novelists of her day, and still adored by a huge audience.
Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and
best-loved of all historical novelists, who made 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.
