- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Penguin; New Impression edition (25 Nov 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140019766
- ISBN-13: 978-0140019766
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 291,121 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born in London, the eldest child of the second Baron Redesdale. Her childhood in a large remote country house with her five sisters and one brother is recounted in the early chapters of The Pursuit of Love (1945), which according to the author, is largely autobiographical.
After the war she moved, with her husband, to Paris where she lived for the rest of her life. She followed the success of The Pursuit of Love with Love in a Cold Climate (1949) The Blessing (1951) and Don't Tell Alfred (1960), published together in Penguin as The Nancy Mitford Omnibus. She also wrote four works of biography; Madame de Pompadour, first published to great acclaim in 1954, Voltaire in Love, The Sun King and Frederick the Great.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book can be read in it's own right, but I feel that I enjoyed it more because I had already read her earlier works, "The Pursuit of Love" and "Love in a Cold Climate" in which we get introduced to Fanny for the first time. She now seems like an old friend, and plenty more old faces pop up. I like the fact that the times have moved on and Mitford tackles the rise of the "teenage" phenomenon of the fifties with her usual dry wit and irony. I find it especially interesting to read it now in the light of the current obsession with youth culture. Read this and find out how it all began!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I hardly think that Nancy Mitford needs anyone to review her work , it never lets you down , her books are witty , delightfully written with a light hearted gaiety that is infectious , they lift a bad mood better than any other read , to read her books is to wish to make her a close friend , highly recommended read
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June Wilson
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This wonderful book is as light as souffle and just as delicious, it is best read lying on the chaise longue in your boudoir, wearing a marabou trimmed dressing gown, languidly sipping pink champagne and the scent of Chanel No 5 in the air is of course mandatory.
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Enjoyed best if you first read the Mitford stories Love in a Cold Climate and Pursuit of love. Continue the fascination of guessing who in real life inspired Mitford and best of... Read more
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I have this wonderful book along with The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate and the The Blessing and have read them multiple times over the last 25 years. Read more
Published 8 months ago by P. Hall
Typos seriously detracted from Kindle edition
This book was my first download on Kindle and I was very disppointed and distracted by the numbers of typos, almost every page contained them. Read more
Published 9 months ago by S M Gray
Full of typos
I enjoyed the book but the whole experience was marred by the sheer number of typos in the kindle edition. There were often two or three typos to a page. Read more
Published 16 months ago by C. Jones
Not as good as I was expecting!
The book is quite good....but maybe I was expecting too much after reading other people's reviews! In any case I belive that books are like clothes... Read more
Published 18 months ago by folly
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hugely enjoyable as something to pass the time on holiday. Pretty good insight to to the lives and neuroses of the privileged classes at the start of the century. Read more
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