Frederick the Great, Mitford Nancy

Автор: Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford
Название: The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
ISBN: 0141193921 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141193922
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Рейтинг:
Цена: 1731 р.
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.

Описание: Offers a glimpse into the literary and social circles of London and Paris, during the Second World War and for twenty years after.

Автор: Mitford Nancy
Название: Love in a Cold Climate
ISBN: 030774082X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307740823
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1363 р.
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.

Описание: A sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars.

Polly Hampton has long been groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, the fearsome and ambitious Lady Montdore. But Polly, with her stunning good looks and impeccable connections, is bored by the monotony of her glittering debut season in London. Having just come from India, where her father served as Viceroy, she claims to have hoped that society in a colder climate would be less obsessed with love affairs. The apparently aloof and indifferent Polly has a long-held secret, however, one that leads to the shattering of her mother's dreams and her own disinheritance. When an elderly duke begins pursuing the disgraced Polly and a callow potential heir curries favor with her parents, nothing goes as expected, but in the end all find happiness in their own unconventional ways.

Featuring an introduction by Flora Fraser.

Автор: Hastings, Selina
Название: Nancy mitford
ISBN: 0099429551 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099429555
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Рейтинг:
Цена: 1688 р.
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.

Описание: 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 life: her failed marriage and her relationship with `the Colonel` contrasting sharply with literary celebrity and glittering social success.

Автор: Nancy Mitford
Название: The Penguin Complete Novels of Nancy Mitford
ISBN: 1905490909 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781905490905
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 1755 р.
Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.

Автор: Mitford, Nancy
Название: Madame de Pompadour
ISBN: 0099528878 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099528876
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Рейтинг:
Цена: 1298 р.
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.

Описание: 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 was groomed to become `a morsel fit for a King`. This title tells the story of how the little girl rose to become the most powerful women of the 18th century French court, Le Pompadour.

Автор: Deborah Mitford Duchess, Mosley Charlotte
Название: Wait for Me!
ISBN: 0312610645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312610647
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Цена: 2226 р.
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.

Описание:

A "NEW YORK TIMES" EDITORS' CHOICE
Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy. "Wait for Me "chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood roaming the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with her sister Unity and Adolf Hitler in 1937, to her marriage to Andrew Cavendish, the second son of the Duke of Devonshire. Written with intense warmth, charm, and perception, "Wait for Me " is a unique portrait of an age of tumult, splendor, and change. "Touching . . . moving . . . and] compelling as a portrait of a vanishing world" ("The Wall Street Journal").

Автор: Nancy Mitford
Название: Don`t Tell Alfred
ISBN: 0141044004 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141044002
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Рейтинг:
Цена: 831 р.
Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.

Описание: Reissue with a new introduction by Sophie Dahl.

Автор: Nancy Mitford
Название: The Blessing
ISBN: 0141044020 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141044026
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Рейтинг:
Цена: 831 р.
Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.

Описание: Reissue with a new introduction by Alex Kapranos.

Автор: Nancy Mitford
Название: Love in a Cold Climate
ISBN: 0141043997 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141043999
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Рейтинг:
Цена: 1168 р.
Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.

Описание: Groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, fearsome Lady Montdore, fabulously fashionable Polly Hampton instead scandalizes society by declaring her love for her uncle `Boy` Dougdale, the Lecherous Lecturer, and promptly eloping to France. But the consequences of this union no one could quite expect... `Love in a Cold Climate` is the wickedly funny follow-up to `The Pursuit of Love` and explores the mystery of sexual attraction. Reissue with a new introduction by Alan Cumming.

Автор: Nancy Mitford
Название: The Pursuit of Love
ISBN: 0141044012 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141044019
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Рейтинг:
Цена: 831 р.
Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.

Описание: Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the look out for the perfect lover. But finding Mr Right is much harder than any of the sisters thought. Linda must suffer marriage first to a stuffy Tory MP and then to a handsome and humorousless communist before finding real love in war-torn Paris... `The Pursuit of Love` is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written. Reissue with a new introduction by Zoe Heller.

Автор: Mitford Nancy
Название: Voltaire in Love
ISBN: 1590175786 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781590175781
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1449 р.
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.

Описание: The inimitable Nancy Mitford's account of Voltaire's fifteen-year relationship with the Marquise du Ch telet--the renowned mathematician who introduced Isaac Newton's revolutionary new physics to France--is a spirited romp in the company of two extraordinary individuals as well as an erudite and gossipy guide to French high society during the Enlightenment. Mitford's story is as delicious as it is complicated. The marquise was in love with another mathematician, Maupertuis, while she had an unexpected rival for Voltaire's affections in the future Frederick the Great of Prussia (and later in the philosophe's own niece). There was, at least, no jealous husband to contend with: the Marquis du Ch telet, Mitford assures us, behaved perfectly. The beau monde of Paris was, however, distraught at the idea of the lovers' brilliant conversation going to waste on the windswept hills of Champagne, site of the Ch teau de Cirey, where experimental laboratories, a darkroom, and a library of more than twenty-one thousand volumes enabled them to pursue their amours philosophiques. From time to time the threat of impending arrest would send Voltaire scurrying across the border into Holland, but his irrepressible charm--and the interventions of powerful friends--always made it possible for him resume his studies with the cherished marquise.

Автор: Mitford Nancy
Название: The Sun King
ISBN: 1590174917 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781590174913
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1363 р.
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.

Описание: "The Sun King" is a dazzling double portrait of Louis XIV and Versailles, the opulent court from which he ruled. With characteristic elan, Nancy Mitford reconstructs the daily life of king and courtiers during France's golden age, offering vivid sketches of the architects, artists, and gardeners responsible for the creation of the most magnificent palace Europe had yet seen. Mitford lays bare the complex and deadly intrigues in the stateroom and the no less high-stakes power struggles in the bedroom. At the center of it all is Louis XIV himself, the demanding, mercurial, but remarkably resilient sovereign who guided France through nearly three quarters of the Grand Siecle.
Brimming with sumptuous detail and delicious bons mots, and written in a witty, conversational style, "The Sun King" restores a distant glittering century to vibrant life.