{"product_id":"the-countess-9780451198501","title":"The Countess","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Catherine Coulter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Signet Book\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Signet Book\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Gothic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDEAR READER: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Countess was my very first novel, published in 1978 under the title The Autumn Countess. Even at that amazingly young age, I still realized that I should write about something I knew. Since I'd grown up reading Georgette Heyer and my master's degree is in nineteenth-century European history, it wasn't much of a mental stretch -- a Regency romance. Well, sort of.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs it turned out, The Autumn Countess danced into the bookstores not as a Regency, but as a Gothic masquerading as a Regency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI've rewritten the novel extensively to make it even more unabashedly Gothic in form, texture, and content, including use of the first-person narration in the classic Gothic style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrea Jameson, unlike the conventional Gothic heroine, isn't a destitute governess. She's young, rich, and toothsome, and adores her Dandie Dinmont terrier, George. However, Andrea doesn't have a single dream of meeting Mr. Right, marrying, and living happily ever after. Go figure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe strikes a bargain with an older widowed earl who promises her all the razzle-dazzle without the obey part. She's perfectly happy with the deal until she meets the earl's nephew and realizes fairly quickly that she might have made an exceptional blunder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut she doesn't have much time to ponder her dim-witted choice of husband because someone is trying to kill her. Will she survive to marry the man of her dreams?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp hope you enjoy the inside cover. art department had a ball designing what they call their classic gothic\u003eDo tell me if you enjoyed the rebirth of my Gothic tale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatherine Coulter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWrite me at P.O. Box 17, Mill Valley, CA. 94942\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Signet Book","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45086942232727,"sku":"9780451198501","price":560.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780451198501.webp?v=1767639748","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-countess-9780451198501","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}