The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford

Автор: Nancy Mitford
Название: The Pursuit of Love
ISBN: 0141044012 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141044019
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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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: Nancy Mitford
Название: Love in a Cold Climate
ISBN: 0241974690 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241974698
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Описание: 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 to France. But the consequences of this union no one could quite expect...

Автор: Mitford Nancy
Название: Love in a Cold Climate
ISBN: 030774082X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307740823
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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: Nancy Mitford
Название: The Penguin Complete Novels of Nancy Mitford
ISBN: 1905490909 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781905490905
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Автор: Mitford, N
Название: Pursuit of Love, The
ISBN: 0140007113 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140007114
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Описание: Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda fantasizes about the perfect lover. Finding Mr Right proves difficult and Linda must bear marriage with Tony, the stuffy Tory MP, and handsome but humourless communist Christian, before finding real passion with Fabrice in wartime Paris.

Автор: Mitford Nancy
Название: Wigs on the Green
ISBN: 0241974712 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241974711
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Описание: 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 endured for years. Nancy Mitford skewers her family and their beliefs with her customary jewelled barbs, but there is froth, comedy and heart here too.

Автор: Mitford Nancy
Название: Voltaire in Love
ISBN: 1590175786 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781590175781
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1159 р.
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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: 1091 р.
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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.

Автор: Mitford, Nancy
Название: The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate
ISBN: 0375718990 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375718991
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1091 р.
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Автор: Mitford Nancy
Название: Highland Fling
ISBN: 0345806956 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345806956
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1094 р.
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Название: Mug - The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
ISBN: 0069403694 ISBN-13(EAN): 5060069403698
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 689 р.
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Автор: Mitford Nancy
Название: Frederick the Great
ISBN: 1590176235 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781590176238
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Описание: The Prussian king Frederick II is today best remembered for successfully defending his tiny country against the three great European powers of France, Austria, and Russia during the Seven Years' War. But in his youth, tormented by a spectacularly cruel and dyspeptic father, the future military genius was drawn to the flute and French poetry, and throughout his long life counted nothing more important than the company of good friends and great wits. This was especially evident in his longstanding, loving, and vexing relationship with Voltaire. An absolute ruler who was allergic to pomp, a non-hunter who wore no spurs, a reformer of great zeal who maintained complete freedom of the press and religion and cleaned up his country's courts, a fiscal conservative and patron of the arts, the builder of the rococo palace Sans Souci and improver of the farmers' lot, maddening to his rivals but beloved by nearly everyone he met, Frederick was--notwithstanding a penchant for merciless teasing--arguably the most humane of enlightened despots.

In Frederick the Great, a richly entertaining biography of one of the eighteenth century's most fascinating figures, the trademark wit of the author of Love in a Cold Climate finds its ideal subject.

Автор: Mitford Nancy
Название: Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie
ISBN: 034580662X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345806628
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie are two sparkling comedies from early in the career of Nancy Mitford, beloved author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, here published in one volume with a new introduction by Jane Smiley.

In Christmas Pudding, an array of colorful characters converge on the hunt-obsessed Lady Bobbin's country house, including her rebellious daughter Philadelphia, the girl's pompous suitor, a couple of children obsessed with newspaper death notices, and an aspiring writer whose serious first novel has been acclaimed as the funniest book of the year, to his utter dismay. In Pigeon Pie, set at the outbreak of World War II, Lady Sophia Garfield dreams of becoming a beautiful spy but manages not to notice a nest of German agents right under her nose, until the murder of her maid and kidnapping of her beloved bulldog force them on her attention, with heroic results. Delivered with a touch lighter than that of Mitford's later masterpieces but no less entertaining, these comedies combine glamour, wit, and fiendishly absurd plots into irresistible literary confections.