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Sto caricando le informazioni... Magic Flutes (1982)di Eva Ibbotson
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I love this book. It's a little ridiculous and over the top. It just so earnest and sweet. ( ) Self-made millionaire Guy Farnes purchases an Austrian castle for his fiancée. The current owner, a princess named Tessa, is working as assistant wardrobe mistress and general errand girl to a nearly-bankrupt opera company in Vienna. When Guy hires the opera company to perform at his engagement banquet, hijinks ensue. This is one of Ibbotson's most charming romances. The characters are delightful, the plot moves apace, the setting is lovely. The romance itself is a bit secondary to these other aspects, but all in all, this is a sweet, fun read. Una inolvidable historia de amor donde se entrecruzarán dos personajes excepcionales: Guy, un huérfano nacido en la más absoluta miseria, que gracias a su inteligencia y a su perseverancia amansará una inmensa fortuna, y Tessa, princesa perteneciente a una aristocrática familia vienesa sumida en la ruina. What a delectable, frothy confection of a book! A farce, a romance, a mockery of princess books and just stuffed to the gills with hilarious, peculiar characters making their way. When incredibly wealthy Guy Farne buys the magnificent and mouldering castle of Pfaffenstein in order to woo the woman of his dreams, little does anyone realize that the tiny, opera-obsessed Princess of Pfaffenstein will end up winning the day against great beauty and the best laid plans of every aristocratic aunt. Go ahead. Just upend all the tropes. I'm in for it. Wait. I didn't even realize that was a trope in the first place. Holy pants, where's my brain pieces? And it kept the one trope that I actually insist upon for a romance while not precisely being a romance or fairy tail or... *shrugs* Whatever it was, it was damn fine, and I do believe Ibbotson may have loved the world just the right amount for writing All the best feels. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A charming story of romance, intrigue and opera, by the award-winning and bestselling author of Journey to the River Sea.Spring, 1922Tessa is a beautiful, tiny, dark-eyed princess - who's given up her duties to follow her heart, working for nothing backstage at the Viennese opera. No one there knows who she really is, or that a fairy-tale castle is missing its princess, and Tessa is determined to keep it that way.But secret lives can be complicated, and when a wealthy, handsome Englishman discovers this bewitching urchin backstage, Tessa's two lives collide - and in escaping her inheritance, she finds her destiny. . .Magic Flutes is an enchanting story of love, music and secret princesses from Eva Ibbotson. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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