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Title	:	The Unknown Ajax
Author	:	Georgette Heyer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	January 6th 2005 by Arrow (first published 1959)
Categories	:	Romance. Historical. Historical Fiction. Regency. Historical Romance. Fiction. Regency Romance

The Unknown Ajax Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

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Miles from anywhere, Darracott Place is presided over by elderly Lord Darracott. Irascible Lord Darracott rules his barony with a firm hand. The tragic accident that killed his eldest son by drowning has done nothing to improve his temper. For now, he must send for the next heir apparent--the unknown offspring of the uncle whom the family is never permitted to mention. He also summons his bickering descendants to the rundown family estate. Yet none of that beleaguered family are prepared for the arrival of the weaver's brat and heir apparent...

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Original Title:	The Unknown Ajax
ISBN:	0099474360 (ISBN13: 9780099474364)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Anthea Darracott, Major Hugo Darracott

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Read 7/5/17: This time, I was listening to it as an audiobook, and it took FOREVER to get going. I hadn't realized before how much of the beginning--nearly the first half--is setting up Hugo as the dull-witted ox who's playing the Darracotts. The best moments were the interactions between Hugo and Anthea and watching Anthea gradually fall in love with him.Read 12/4/12: I like that this is one of Heyer's romances that's more fiction/mystery/adventure novel. The scene near the end, where (view

Furious that his title and estates would now pass to his unacknowledged grandson, whose father he had disowned for daring to marry the daughter of a Yorkshire weaver, old Lord Darracott determined that his heir must be whipped into shape, enlisting the help of his reluctant, bullied family in the task. But neither he, his supercilious grandson Vincent, nor his spirited granddaughter Anthea, had counted on the "Unknown Ajax" and his lamentable propensity towards levity, and in the end, it was

5+ stars!How on Earth did Georgette Heyer come up with so many distinct characters and so many completely dissimilar plots? The lady was brilliant, I tell you! The Unknown Ajax centers around the extremely dysfunctional Darracott family, ruled with an iron fist by eighty-year-old Lord Darracott. He's sired four sons, three of whom are dead. His eldest, the heir, drowned recently along with the grandson who would have been next in line to inherit. The crochety patriarch had cast off Hugh, the

4 1/2Another fun Heyer! This is a dysfunctional family who gets put to rights by a "weaver's brat" aka Hugo. Major Hugo. None of the family particularly likes each other and no one is pleased to have the Major the heir to Lord Darracott's dwindling fortune. Especially as Hugo is a Yorkshire yokel who doesn't know the right of things. They are sure they can teach him how to be a gentleman. Big and dull witted looking, Hugo slowly takes them all by storm, even Anthea who was determined not to

This is the weakest Heyer I've read. I can see why it's not one of the well known ones. Frankly, it's boring! There's way too much dialect (something that I find tends to get in the way in some of her other works as well), and nothing much actually happens. Even the action at the end isn't action. There's some smuggling potential, but that all happens off the stage. There certainly isn't enough going on to justify the hero and heroine deciding they love each other. They just decide it. I really

This is one of my favorite Georgette Heyer titles, and listening to the narration by Daniel Philpott makes it just perfect. Hugo Darracott unexpectedly becomes the heir to his grandfather, Lord Darracott. They have never met, because Hugo's father married a "weaver's daughter" and was cut off by his snobbish, irascible sire. When Hugo arrives at the estate his grandfather shares with his widowed daughter-in-law and her two almost-grown children, he realizes that they are expecting to meet with

Amusing story of succession.This is really not a romance, but more of a family dynamics' vehicle. You have the unforeknown, dark horse relative of mixed origins hailing from the northern hinterlands plopped into the decaying Sussex/Kent gentry of the Darracotts. The "new", not really new, but new to all but Lord Darracott coming to meet the family after the heir apparent's unexpected demise, Hugo wastes no time in playing the idiot to meet his family's expectations.Done for more amusement than