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Blessingby Nancy MitfordISBN 0786705213 (0-7867-0521-3)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Christmas Puddingby Nancy MitfordISBN 0786705760 (0-7867-0576-0)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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Highland Flingby Nancy MitfordISBN 0600206262 (0-600-20626-2)
Softcover, Octopus Publishing Group
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The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waughby Charlotte Mosley, Nancy Mitford , Evelyn WaughISBN 0395740150 (0-395-74015-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh'Book summary:Charlotte Mosley's careful collection of Nancy Mitford's and Evelyn Waugh's delightfully careless letters immerses one in a lost whirl. The two writers met in London in the late 1920s, but their correspondence didn't take off until mid-World War II, when it quickly became an exaggeration-fest. Mitford, for example, matches Waugh's surreal reports from Europe with one about an M.P. swelling up before his fellow politicians' eyes: "Well, it took 2 ambulances to get him away & now he lies on 4 beds with his trunk hanging out the window. Let nobody say that war time London lacks fantasy."
For the next 21 years, these gifted gossips would render the ridiculous sublime and vice versa, turning (and then only mildly) serious in discussions of reading and writing, preferring to glide over the problematic and emotional. Throughout, Mitford likes to play the euphoric, lazy pupil, Waugh the master grammarian, theologian, and meanie. The exchanges on their own works in progress--particularly on Brideshead Revisited and The Pursuit of Love--are an important addition to literary history, but the book's true exhilaration lies in Mitford and Waugh's knowing--and knowingly vile--comic timing. Irresistibly offensive. [via]
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The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waughby Nancy Mitford , Evelyn Waugh, Charlotte MosleyISBN 0340638044 (0-340-63804-4)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh'Book summary:Charlotte Mosley's careful collection of Nancy Mitford's and Evelyn Waugh's delightfully careless letters immerses one in a lost whirl. The two writers met in London in the late 1920s, but their correspondence didn't take off until mid-World War II, when it quickly became an exaggeration-fest. Mitford, for example, matches Waugh's surreal reports from Europe with one about an M.P. swelling up before his fellow politicians' eyes: "Well, it took 2 ambulances to get him away & now he lies on 4 beds with his trunk hanging out the window. Let nobody say that war time London lacks fantasy."
For the next 21 years, these gifted gossips would render the ridiculous sublime and vice versa, turning (and then only mildly) serious in discussions of reading and writing, preferring to glide over the problematic and emotional. Throughout, Mitford likes to play the euphoric, lazy pupil, Waugh the master grammarian, theologian, and meanie. The exchanges on their own works in progress--particularly on Brideshead Revisited and The Pursuit of Love--are an important addition to literary history, but the book's true exhilaration lies in Mitford and Waugh's knowing--and knowingly vile--comic timing. Irresistibly offensive. [via]
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Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitfordby Nancy Mitford , Charlotte MosleyISBN 0340599219 (0-340-59921-9)
Softcover, Hodder General Publishing Division
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love from Nancy : The Letters of Nancy Mitford'Book summary:Nancy Mitford died in 1973, before she could write her autobiography. This is a selection from one of the most prolific letter-writers of the 20th century. Nancy Mitford's correspondence to her wide circle of friends - Harold Acton, Robert Byron, Evelyn Waugh and Cyril Connolly - sheds a light on their lives and the times in which they lived. The book spans a period of 60 years with over 100 correspondents. It includes a collection of more than 300 letters to Evelyn Waugh, one of her closest friends. There are detailed accounts of the foolishnesses and foibles of her adopted country (France) and also in the story of her unhappy marriage and her prolonged love-affair with the "colonel", a member of de Gaulle's government. Charlotte Mosley is the editor of a collection of Nancy Mitford's journalism, "A Talent to Annoy". [via]
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- Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford: ISBN 0340537841 (0-340-53784-1)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton - Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford: ISBN 0395570417 (0-395-57041-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Love from Nancy : The Letters of Nancy Mitford: ISBN 0340599219 (0-340-59921-9)
Softcover, Hodder General Publishing Division
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Madame de Pompadourby Nancy MitfordISBN 052548146X (0-525-48146-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracyby Nancy MitfordISBN 0689707045 (0-689-70704-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Pigeon Pieby Nancy MitfordISBN 0600206254 (0-600-20625-4)
Softcover, Octopus Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pigeon Pie'Book summary:British high society, spy stories, and goofy religious cults are all gently mocked in this inventive, stylish satire. When the highly imaginative Lady Sophia Garfield discovers a nest of very real German spies in her home, nobody believes her. With her maid murdered and her beloved bulldog held hostage, she sets out alone to gain proof and, with time out for tea at the Ritz, save Britain.[via]-
Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climateby Nancy MitfordISBN 0375718990 (0-375-71899-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate'Book summary:Few aristocratic English families of the 20th century have enjoyed quite the delicious notoriety that the Mitford sisters courted in the years bracketed by two world wars. For a start, two of the girls, Unity and Diana, were Fascists (the former was a friend of Hitler and Goebbels, and the latter married Sir Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists). Two others took the writing route: Jessica ran away from home and became a famous muckraking journalist, and Nancy composed maliciously witty--and transparently autobiographical--novels as well as several biographies. The Pursuit of Love (1945), her greatest fictional success, and its companion, Love in a Cold Climate (1949), keep closely to the spirit (and details) of their youthful amusements and more grown-up adventures.
Seen through the adoring eyes of Fanny Logan, the self-effacing cousin who records their shenanigans with a wicked sincerity, the Radletts of Alconleigh shine with Gloucestershire glamour: apoplectic Uncle Matthew; Lord Alconleigh (modeled to a fine nuance after Mitford's father, Lord Redesdale, who like Uncle Matthew used to hunt his children with bloodhounds); his kind, rather vague wife, Aunt Sadie; as well as Fanny's favorite cousin Linda and the other six Radlett children. The Radlett daughters and Fanny wait impatiently for life to become interesting. Because of their station, however, nothing but marriage is expected of them, so they hurl themselves at love like crusaders, with varied and always fascinating results. At one point Fanny recounts:
A few minutes only after Linda had left me to go back to London, Christian and the comrades, I had another caller. This time it was Lord Merlin...."This is a bad business," he said, abruptly, and without preamble, though I had not seen him for several years. "I'm just back from Rome, and what do I find--Linda and Christian Talbot. It's an extraordinary thing that I can't ever leave England without Linda getting herself mixed up with some thoroughly undesirable character. This is a disaster--how far has it gone? Can nothing be done?"
The Pursuit of Love follows the romantic fortunes of Linda Radlett, while Love in a Cold Climate ventures further afield with the story of Polly Hampton's shocking love affair and its unexpectedly funny aftermath. Fanny's inexhaustible narration is a pleasant buffer for Mitford's deft teasing, which dances along just this side of mockery. The author of U and Non-U, a famous tongue-in-cheek treatise on the shibboleths of upper-class mores, Mitford often leaves the reader wondering just where she stands in the class wars, and much of her humor arises in the fine distinctions of aristocratic manners and speech. Still, there's an inimitable tart sweetness to these stories of true love and its pallid imitators, making them perfect snapshots of a vanished world. --Barrie Trinkle [via]More editions of Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate:
- Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate: ISBN 0394708172 (0-394-70817-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels: ISBN 0394604814 (0-394-60481-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate : Two Novels: ISBN 0679600906 (0-679-60090-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate: ISBN 0375718990 (0-375-71899-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
- Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate: ISBN 0394708172 (0-394-70817-2)
The Sun Kingby Nancy MitfordISBN 051754783X (0-517-54783-X)
Softcover, Harmony Books
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The Sun King: Louis XIV at Versaillesby Nancy MitfordISBN 0718122054 (0-7181-2205-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sun King : Louis XIV at Versailles'Book summary:This work takes as its subject Louis XIV at Versailles - from the moment he decided to transform his father's hunting lodge into the greatest palace in Europe to his death there 54 years later. It covers the daily life of the king, the court and the government during the period of France's apogee in military power and artistic achievement. The book discusses the plans for and the building of the palace, and the creation of remarkable elaborate works of art with which it was filled. The book reconstructs the course of Louis's love affairs, culminating in his secret marriage to Madame de Maintenon, episodes such as the affair of the poisons, the creation of the School for Girls at Saint-Cyr, Lord Portland's embassy and the marriage of the Duchess of Bourgogne. [via]
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Voltaire in Loveby Nancy MitfordISBN 0525481907 (0-525-48190-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Water Beetleby Nancy MitfordISBN 0689707037 (0-689-70703-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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