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The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh (Hardcover)

by Nancy Mitford (Author), Evelyn Waugh (Author), Charlotte Mosley (Editor)
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  • Hardcover: 531 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd; 1st Edition edition (17 Oct 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340638044
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340638040
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 297,890 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The writers Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were great friends, and their friendship gave rise to the 500 letters in this collection.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A book to dip in and out of., 21 Aug 2003
By Mr. Gavin H. Morris "gavin1970" (England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh (Paperback)
This is one of those rare books that actually changes you slightly. You can feel Nancy Mitford's effervescent love of life and a man she was destined not to have (not Waugh, read the book). Waugh's bitter humour and at times almost violently zealous faith (ex-agnostics are always the worst, aren't they?) are transformed over time into the inconveniences of old age and the beginnings of uncertainty.

Waugh's characters are here, only slightly less alive for being real than they are in his retelling of them.

By Today's standards both Mitford and Waugh would be considered bigots, racists and terrible snobs - part of all that was wrong with old England. This book raises the possibility that we may have thrown the baby out with the bath water. There's another world here, another view altogether, and it's not all bad.

The book fulfills many functions. It's a record of the mid 20th Century English upper class from the viewpoint of the bohemian intelligentsia. It's a platonic love story. It's the tale of a life long friendship. It's about disillusionment. It's gossip. It is spiky, barbed argument and profound offence, but it's also tender concern and deep respect. It is two of the best and most difficult writers the world has ever produced writing personally and mostly honestly about what mattered to them. It's about writing paper and it's about the proper use of the word 'claim.'

"It is very degrading to be constantly in the company of of people you have to "make allowances for"" - this book is a break from them.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I SHRIEKED!, 21 Aug 2000
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My Dear! Read them and shriek! You will SHRIEK! Honks Cooper, Ooofy Allbright (don't mention the hair do! ), Clever Clever and a host of other minor society figures - all here in this too, too perfect book. Blissikins! How can one fail to love a book that cites a genuine article entitled "Hats are small but worn at any angle"? Or a father's description of his 2 year-old daughter as "Massively unpleasant, probably manic depressive and ludicrously theatrical, she runs screaming from me at every opportunity, but her eyes are full of malevolent intent."? You will SHRIEK! Sheer, sheer HEAVEN. DO buy it, oh do! I really think you might, you horror.
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