Il tavolo del faraone - 9788898713936

Il tavolo del faraone: Pregiudizi e fraintendimenti sono i protagonisti di questo romanzo. La bella Deborah Grantham è una giovane donna intelligente che, per una serie di disgrazie finanziarie famigliari, si ritrova ad aiutare la zia a gestire una casa da gioco, tenendo in particolare il tavolo del faraone, un gioco di carte molto in voga. Ma ha un temperamento irrequieto che la spinge a comportamenti impulsivi; così, quando si rende conto della pessima reputazione che, per un equivoco, l'aristocratico Max Ravenscar - uomo facoltoso, arrogante e scaltro - si è fatto di lei, decide di sfidarlo, adottando atteggiamenti sempre più sfrontati...
Prejudices and misunderstandings are the protagonists of this novel.  The beautiful Deborah Grantham is an intelligent and good-natured young woman who, for a series of family financial setbacks, helps her aunt to manage a gambling house, keeping in particular the pharaoh's table, a card game very popular at the time. Her fiery and passionate temperament pushes her to impulsive behavior and, when she realizes the bad reputation that, for a misunderstanding, the aristocrat Max Ravenscar - a wealthy, arrogant and equally intelligent man - has made of her, she decides to challenge him with no holds barred, adopting increasingly brazen attitudes and leaving him wallow in his misunderstanding. Two protagonists worthy of the best Heyer face each other in this book putting into play all their humanity made of great merits and undoubted defects, until the long-awaited and longed-for final capitulation. Equally well described are the characters that accompany the protagonists, from the cynical libertine consumed by too many vices to the young and naïve scions, men and women, who face society and its strict rules with uncertain pace, made a little safer only by the bravado of young age.