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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Arrow
Publication date ‏ : ‎ Feb. 14 2005
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0099474379
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099474371
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 234 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 2.1 x 19.8 cm
Book 11 of 27 ‏ : ‎ Regency Romances
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Linda MacMillan
Better each time I read it
Reviewed in Canada on June 30, 2018
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I am always a fan of Georgette Heyer's books, but there are a handful of titles I find myself coming back to again and again. This is one of them, and while I liked it the first time I read it, I've enjoyed it even more each successive time. There's a humour and lighthearted sense of fun that's makes it a delight all the way through, and the closing chapter is delightfully satisfying.

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Alex
Engaging and amusing
Reviewed in Canada on June 21, 2017
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One of Georgette Heyer's best books due to her humorous characters and a lively plot. I highly recommend it to any of her readers.

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Anonymous
Cute!
Reviewed in Canada on August 24, 2017
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Cute story, enjoyed it immensely. It was a tiny bit tedious, hence the four stars, but the cuteness factor outweighs that. Recommend to anyone who likes Georgette Heyer.

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The evolution of Freddy
Reviewed in Canada on July 23, 2020
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The character of Freddy

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Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on February 4, 2016
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I love Georgette Heyer's books, and this is no exception! Very fun, lighthearted story!

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Beverley Strong
Charming AND Funny
Reviewed in Canada on October 2, 2003
Not only is this story light and frothy, it is also full of well written, funny characters. Kitty Charing is told by her step father, Mr.Pennicuik, to choose a husband from his great nephews as a condition of her inheritance of his large fortune. As she had always been kept under his close supervision, she is determined to spend some time in London, trying her wings in Society before committing to a marriage and so forces Freddy, the most affable of the nephews to take her to stay with his married sister. It's a witty,funny story with a lot of charm and good humour.

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Sverre Svendsen
Not a favourite
Reviewed in Canada on April 24, 2013
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Looking for some light reading and being charmed by literature set in the pre-Victorian Regency era (1795-1837) I decided to have a go with Heyer’s Cotillion which she wrote in the early 1950s. I was immediately mystified by the beginning of the book where a number of characters participate in dialogues. Heyer presents their names, status and relationships so cryptically that I had to read the pages numerous times and make notes to establish their identities. That was not a good beginning. As I read on I was presented with copious localistic and colloquial vocabulary as well as peculiar metaphors, idioms and slang particular to that English locale and the time period. Authenticity is usually something to be admired but I felt the author was failing to communicate legibly with her modern readers. Two examples: ‘The thing’s a dashed take-in! A pretty set of bubble merchants they must be, the fellows that look after that place. It’s a fortunate thing you brought that book! Why, if we hadn’t had it we should have been done brown as a pair of berries!’ ‘What?’ ejaculated Freddy, roused to real dismay. ‘Good God, Meg, you ain’t such a sapskull as to put a lilac coal-scuttle on that yaller head of yours?’

This book tells the farcical tale of young Kitty Charing who has lived a sequestered existence as the ward of an elderly rich cantankerous aristocrat, Matthew Penicuik, who aims to leave her his fortune but only if she marries someone of his approval. He has invited his nephews to make “bids” for Kitty but she is not amenable to any of them except, possibly Jack who fails to make a move. But Kitty can’t wait to escape the suffocating environment of her ward and her overbearing maid Fishguard. She and another of her ward’s nephews, Freddy Standen, plot a scheme. They will pretend to get engaged and she will go with him to London to experience the big city life, living at his parents. Soon she meets Freddy’s sister, Meg, who takes her under her wing. Jack introduces her to her long lost French cousin Chevalier who has come to London to be on the make. He befriends Kitty’s new friend Olivia. Freddy’s feebleminded cousin Dolph, tyrannized by his domineering mother, manages with Kitty’s aid, to develop a relationship with a working class woman much below his station. That is the main cast. The plot twists and turns working towards a hilarious and romantic conclusion.

I had to really try to like this book for the first two thirds of it, but did enjoy the last third. Cotillion seems to be rated as one of Heyer’s best books but I judged it to only be average. I am not sure that I would try another of her books. Two and a half stars.

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RATNA
Not much excitement!!!
Reviewed in Canada on September 15, 2017
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It is a good book, but not as interesting as G.H's other books. The plot from the beginning was disappointing.

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DNA
Don't underestimate this one
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2018
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I wasn't a big fan of this book when I first read it because the protagonist, Freddie Standen, is not the typical hero I expected to find - he's clearly a man of fashion but lacks the athleticism, glib tongue and "cool" persona of a Corinthian. Subsequent rereads have since made this a favorite Heyer; like Kitty Charing and Freddie's father, I came to recognize and appreciate Freddie's superior qualities: his kindness and innate chivalry, his worldly wisdom and adroitness in all matters of social conduct, his integrity and his unshakeable sense of responsibility toward the people he cares about.

The eccentric Matthew Penicuik has decided to leave his entire fortune to his ward Kitty Charing on condition that she marry one of his great-nephews, and with this in mind he summons said nephews to his estate at Arnside. It's well-known in the family that Kitty has long been infatuated with one of them, Jack Westruther, but Jack ignores the summons. Mortified and resentful, Kitty manages to intercept the Honorable Freddie Standen before he arrives to Arnside. The kind-hearted Freddie, having had no idea why he'd been summoned by his great-uncle, very reluctantly agrees to propose to Kitty since this will enable her to travel to London, ostensibly to become reacquainted with Freddie's parents but in actuality, as Kitty explains vaguely to Freddie, to find alternatives to the impossible situation in which her guardian has placed her. Mr. Penicuik rightly suspects that it's all a hum orchestrated by Kitty to make Jack Westruther jealous, but he always intended for Jack to inherit the estate anyway so he agrees to the plan while (fortuitously) forbidding them to formally announce the engagement.

A hiccup in Kitty's plan occurs when they find on arriving to the home of Freddie's parents that she cannot stay there because his younger siblings have the measles. For the same reason Freddie's older sister Meg, newly married and expecting, cannot stay with her parents while her husband is off on a year-long government mission. This puts Meg in a bind as she cannot remain alone but does not want to stay in the country with her mother-in-law. So Freddie suggests that Kitty stay with Meg during her planned month-long sojourn in London, an arrangement that both women eagerly agree to.

Because of her sheltered upbringing and her guardian's penurious ways, Kitty is sadly out of fashion, but this is soon remedied with Freddie's unerring guidance. And though Mr. Penicuik provided Kitty with what seems to her an enormous sum of money to purchase a fashionable wardrobe, the more knowledgeable Freddie realizes it won't make a dent in what she'll need. But since she has asked him to take charge of the money for her, he is able to use his own considerable wealth to her benefit with Kitty none the wiser.

For all that she had been isolated in the country and inundated with the overly dramatic romantic musings of her eccentric governess, Kitty is pragmatic and well-grounded. Though not worldly wise, her astuteness, eagerness to learn and ingrained sense of right vs. wrong make her an apt pupil. Having brought her to town, Freddie feels responsible for making sure she doesn't set her foot wrong socially or do anything cork-brained. But he's proud of the new Kitty that emerges who, in addition to the new social graces she is acquiring, has a good eye for color and for the styles that best become her. Freddie also doesn't like to see Kitty disappointed, a circumstance which leads him to very reluctantly agree to take her to see the most noteworthy sights of London mentioned in her guidebook. The results are hilarious, from his indignant reaction on seeing the Elgin Marbles - "Dash it, they've got no heads!...Well, if this don't beat the Dutch!" - to how he describes the whole experience to his amused and appreciative father - "a lot of tombs and broken-down statues you wouldn't think anyone would want to look at, let alone pay to look at...You know what, sir? It's a dashed take-in!"

Freddie's only real worry emerges when Kitty entangles herself in the woes of two people whose causes she has taken up: her new friend, the beautiful but unfortunately circumstanced Olivia Broughty; and the slow-witted Lord Dolphinton, another of Matthew Penicuik's great-nephews, whose ruthless mother does not believe Kitty and Freddie are engaged (as reported within the family) and forces the hapless Dolph to keep trying to win her. Freddie's reaction when Kitty says she's going to help Dolph is priceless: "If you're hatching a scheme to poison Aunt Augusta, I won't have anything to do with it!...Good thing, if one could do it...Thing is, bound to be a scandal." He's still reluctant to get involved when he learns her plan is to help Dolph marry the only woman he wants, the indomitable but socially inferior Hannah Plymstock. But as always, Freddie rises admirably to the occasion, not only by supporting Kitty but by figuring out how to solve seemingly insoluble dilemmas and then acting with decisive finesse (something Kitty isn't too shabby at herself).

Always confident about his abilities in some areas while acknowledging his limitations in others, Freddie frequently tells people that his younger brother Charlie got all the brains in the family. But Freddie has something even more important, a great deal of common sense that is engaged so automatically he never seems to notice it. One of the greatest satisfactions of this book is seeing how Freddie, just being himself, deservedly earns the approval and validation of Kitty and his father.

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Reviewed in Italy on April 30, 2011
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«You can't call making such a cake of myself a little thing!» (Freddy a Kitty, capitolo 4)

L'irascibile Mr Penicuik ha convocato in campagna i pronipoti per qualcosa di particolarmente importante: ha deciso di lasciare la sua immensa fortuna alla pupilla, Miss Catherine Charing (Kitty), a patto che sposi proprio uno di loro. I contendenti per la mano della fanciulla, però, non sono al completo e, in ogni caso, quest'idea del matrimonio combinato proprio non va giù a Kitty, che si industria per cercare una via d'uscita. Com'è come non è, riesce a convincere il ritardatario all'appello Frederick - Freddy - Standen a farle da complice, fingere un fidanzamento, e accompagnarla a Londra per un mese, nella speranza di...

La vera forza di questo romanzo sono i personaggi: numerosi e vari, portano avanti l'azione a un ritmo incalzante. Il protagonista maschile colpisce immediatamente perché lontano dal modello del tipico eroe romance: identificato sin dalla sua prima apparizione come «Pink of the Ton», Freddy è un elegante gentiluomo dai modi impeccabili, forse non brilla in acume, ma con l'andare delle pagine si scoprono tutto il suo buon senso, l'abilità nell'affrontare qualsiasi situazione, la gentilezza e la bontà. Gli si contrappone l'affascinante cugino Jack Westruther, libertino e giocatore impenitente, potrebbe essere il classico personaggio principale di un romanzo, ma compare a trama già avviata e perde la sua occasione. Kitty è un'eroina amabile: innocente e altruista, è facile simpatizzare con lei che, dopo aver condotto una vita da reclusa, non riesce a destreggiarsi del tutto nell'alta società londinese, non cede all'orgoglio e rimane fedele a se stessa. Pare non essere capace di evitare frequentazioni dubbie che potrebbero compromettere la sua reputazione, quali l'ambiguo cugino francese Camille, The Chevalier d'Evron, e la volgare Miss Olivia Broughty. Non ci si può dimenticare, poi, di Lord Dolphinton, non del tutto a senno, conte impoverito e altro cugino di Freddy, non mancherà di animare la narrazione con le sue rivelazioni, sorprendendoci in continuazione. Questo è solo un piccolo assaggio, perché ci sono molte altre figure che affollano il libro rendendolo particolarmente vivace.

Cotillion è un'opera ironica e romantica, scritta con la solita attenzione della Heyer per la ricostruzione storica: fanno capolino qui e là personaggi realmente esistiti, non mancano colorate espressioni dal sapore rétro (come quella con cui ho aperto questa recensione), così come salta all'occhio il ricco vocabolario gergale usato soprattutto da Freddy, quale perfetto esemplare della Ton londinese. È un romanzo estremamente scorrevole e ideale per concedersi una piacevole evasione nel periodo regency.

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Per non perdersi alcuno dei riferimenti storici, sociali e culturali che si trovano in quest'opera, può essere molto utile la consultazione di Georgette Heyer's Regency World di Jennifer Kloester.
La frase «to make a cake of oneself» è cara alla Heyer, che la usa in diversi dei suoi lavori. L'autrice la ritrovò in un memoriale che faceva parte della propria collezione di fonti storiche (a tal proposito, si veda The Private World of Georgette Heyer di Jane Aiken Hodge, capitolo 7).

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Viki
Five Stars
Reviewed in India on October 30, 2014
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A diamond of first water!

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frances evans
Charming as always
Reviewed in Spain on March 4, 2018
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I know this book well as i am a Georgette Heyer fan and have always been one. I bought this copy because my old one was falling to pieces. I had not read the story in many years and I have just done so and I have been charmed and amused as always.

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Tante Jean
One of her best
Reviewed in Australia on March 10, 2024
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This gem contains a host of delightful characters headed by Freddy, the ultimate anti-hero who takes this story in an unexpected direction. All the hallmarks of the best Georgette Heyer creations are present_ great descriptions of the fashions and foibles of the era, expert caricatures of the rich and famous, witty dialogue and a central storyline that allows for some actual character development in the main protagonists. I loved it!

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