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The Smile of the Stranger by Joan Aiken

The Smile of the Stranger by Joan Aiken

      
He looked so like her hero, Charles the First, that it was easy to fall in love -- and into trouble.

She shopped along the Ponte Vecchio. She spoke Italian and French with fluency and knew more English history than many a girl born and reared in England.

But she had grown up in Florence, the daughter of a self-exiled Englishman who had fled to Italy when his dreams disintegrated. It was scarcely an upbringing that would prepare Juliana to outwit a French mob, escape in a balloon across the channel and match wits with the suave gentleman who was the Prince Regent's agent. But she managed it all until she met the experience she was least prepared for -- when a man who looked like her dream hero begged to be her love.

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recent publishing history

Paperback

Jan-1979

New English Library Ltd

ISBN: 0450044017

ISBN13: 9780450044014


Mass Market Paperback

Jan-1980

Warner

Warner Regency - 10

ISBN: 0446941441

ISBN13: 9780446941440

First Edition

Hardcover

Oct-1978

Doubleday

ISBN: 038513634X

ISBN13: 9780385136341


Hardcover

Jan-1978

Gollancz (UK)

ISBN: 0575024577

ISBN13: 9780575024571


Hardcover

Dec-1979

Ulverscroft Large Print

ISBN: 0708903673

ISBN13: 9780708903674

 

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published

1978 (hardcover)

publisher series

#10 - Warner Regency

time period

Nineteenth Century

Regency

setting

England

genres

Romance

sub-genres

Traditional Regency