I'm on page 210 of 328 of The Grand Sophy: A very odd, anti-semitic couple of chapters. Hubert, younger brother, gets himself in debt to Goldhanger and leaves a family heirloom with Goldhanger as collateral. Sophy goes to Goldhanger's business. Goldhanger is dirty, greedy, criminal, cunning, bony-fingered, semitic nose, etc. etc. Spoiler coming up--Sophy gets the ring back from Goldhanger after PULLING A GUN OUT~too much in so many ways. I want to look up the date of this book to see just how recently such out-and-out anti-semiticism was considered acceptable.
Checked: 1950 Also discovered that the Goldhanger chapters are deleted from some newer editions of the book. Rewriting history and cleaning up Heyer's reputation. Awful! |
Excellent start . . . orphaned girl with a knack for chess, taught by janitor, harsh orphanage despite its courtly look.
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