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Nancy Mitford
Ah, the dresses! But oh, the monotony of the Season, with its endless run of glittering balls. Even fabulously fashionable Polly Hampton - with her startling good looks and excellent…
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Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the lookout for a perfect lover. But finding Mr Right is much harder…
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Provides a glimpse of the bright young things of the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties in the city and in the shires; firmly ensconced at home or making a go…
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Eliza Knight
Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more section.
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The snobbery and false values of the English country nobility are satirized in these two love stories involving the well-established Radlett and Hampton families.
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India Knight
‘A savagely funny, bracingly sad, dazzlingly clever reimagining of The Pursuit of Love. I loved it. Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss
'A triumph! Brilliantly done, faithful but imaginative…
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In one of the wittiest novels of them all, Nancy Mitford casts a finely gauged net to capture perfectly the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in…
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Selina Hastings
Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. This book captures equally the gaiety and frivolity and the unhappy truth of Nancy Mitford’s…
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Originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985.
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The autobiography Nancy Mitford intended to write herself
Evelyn Waugh,Nancy Mitford
Offers a glimpse into the literary and social circles of London and Paris, during the Second World War and for twenty years after.
The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Emilie du Chatelet, was a meeting of both hearts and minds.
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Featuring an Introduction by the author of The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, Mitford’s most controversial novel, unavailable for decades, is a hilarious send-up of the misguided political enthusiasms of…
Two early comic novels by British novelist Nancy Mitford, here combined in one volume with a new introduction by Jane Smiley –
When Grace Allingham, a naive young Englishwoman, goes to live in France with her dashing husband she finds herself overwhelmed by her husband’s French notion of marriage–which includes a permanent…
Nancy’s sisters Unity and Diana were furious with her for making fun of Diana’s husband, Oswald Moseley, and his politics, and the book caused a rift between them all that…
The Scottish Highlands may never be the same after the Bright Young Things meet the Dull Old things on a long vacation at Dalloch. Jane Dacre finds painter Albert Gates…
Fanny Wincham has lived contentedly as housewife to absent-minded Oxford don, Alfred. But then her life changes overnight when Alfred is appointed English Ambassador to Paris. When Fanny’s tenderhearted secretary…
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also…
When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV - from that day she…
Author Nancy Mitford transplants a group of confirmed Londoners to the Cotswolds and takes the reader for a romp through British society, both country and city, during the ‘20s and'30s.
One of Mitford’s most enduringly popular works, The Pursuit of Love is a classic comedy about growing up and falling in love among the privileged and eccentric. This edition includes…
The Love And Marriage Of A Beautiful Englishwoman And A Glamorous French Marquis.
Laura Thompson
A biography of the most brilliant of the Mitford sisters, who dazzled and scandalised interwar high society with their wit and sometimes controversial lifestyles.
Michelle Gable
A novel of Nancy Mitford and WWII –Cover.
New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson turns her eye to the iconic and enigmatic Nancy Mitford.
A novel of Nancy Mitford and WWII –Cover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Six turns her eye to the iconic and enigmatic Nancy Mitford. Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana…
Nancy C. Parrish
Written as a rattling good read, The Downton Era takes the reader on a journey through twentieth century England by pointing out the personal landmarks that make up history.
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Lisa Hilton
The compelling love story of two extraordinary individuals - Nancy Mitford and Free French commander Gaston Palewski - living in extraordinary times.
Originally published: London: Hamilton, 1970.
Nancy Mitford’s brilliantly witty, irreverent stories of the upper classes in pre-war London and Paris conjure up a world of glamour, gossip and decadence.
It isn’t just Nanny who finds it difficult in France when Grace and her young son Sigi are finally able to join her dashing aristocratic husband Charles-Edouard after the war…
First published in 1954, this is an evocation of Louis XV’s court at Versailles. The political and religious complications of the time are explained and put into context, while the…
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMS Frederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become one of history’s greatest rulers. Nancy…
During his reign Louis XIV was the most powerful king in Europe. He presided over a golden age of military and artistic achievement in France, and deployed his charm and…
Groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, fearsome Lady Montdore, Polly instead scandalises society by declaring her love for her uncle ‘Boy’ Dougdale, the Lecherous Lecturer, and promptly eloping…
