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Don't Tell Alfred is the wickedly funny sequel to Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate. 'I believe it would have been normal...
Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate is a wickedly funny satire, brilliantly lampooning upper-class society. When Polly, a beautiful aristocrat, dec...
Mitfordโs most enduringly popular novel, The Pursuit of Love is a classic comedy about growing up and falling in love among the privileged and eccen...
"Frederick II (German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712? 17 August 1786) was King in Prussia (1740?1786) of the Hohenzollern dynasty. He is best known f...
This gossipy account of Louis XIV is a clear and fascinating historical biography from Nancy Mitford. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STELLA TILLYARD During h...
The Blessing by Nancy Mitford It isn't just Nanny who finds it difficult in France when Grace and her young son Sigi are finally able to join her dash...
The Letters of Nancy Mitford
Nancy Mitford died in 1973 before she could write an autobiography. But she was one of the great letter writers of this century, and her sparkling cor...
The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess รmilie du Chรขtelet, w...
A Novel
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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 tha...
Love in a Cold Climate is the sequel to Nancy Mitford's bestselling novel The Pursuit of Love. 'How lovely - green velvet and silver. I call that a dr...
A Memoir
Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford is a hilarious satire of the upper classes. Eugenia Malmains is one of the richest girls in England and an ardent s...
The writers Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were great friends, and their friendship gave rise to the 500 letters full of malicious jokes and social go...
Nancy Mitford's first novel, a set of completely incompatible and hilariously eccentric characters collide in a Scottish castle, where bright young th...
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 c...
Two sparkling comedies from early in the career of the beloved author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, here published in one volume ...
Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introd...
Two Novels
Mitford's most famous novels, "The Pursuit of Love" and "Love in a Cold Climate, " satirize British aristocracy in the '20s and '30s through the amoro...
The formidable fox-hunting obsessed Lady Bobbin has put together a Christmas house party at Compton Bobbin, including her rebellious daughter Philadel...
Introduction by Laura Thompson
A hardcover omnibus of the comic masterpieces that made Nancy Mitford famous: madcap tales of growing up among the privileged and eccentric in England...
With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces la...
An Enquiry Into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy
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Essays, Articles, & Reviews, 1929-1968
Louis XVI Ad Versailles
Fanny is content with her role as a housewife, married to Oxford don, Alfred. Her life changes overnight when Alfred is appointed Ambassador to Paris....
Selected Journalism
Nancy Mitford was the eldest and most famous of the Mitfords. However, before she shot to fame as a novelist with The Pursuit of Love, she had gathere...