Книга: Mitford Nancy «The Pursuit of Love»

The Pursuit of Love

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Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and let's not even mention the mysteries of sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the hunt for the ideal lover. But finding the perfect match is much harder than any of the sisters had ever dreamed. Linda is first courted by a Tory MP and then becomes embroiled with a handsome but humourless communist, before she risks everything on a chance at real, head-over-heels love in war-torn Paris.

Издательство: "Penguin" (2018)

ISBN: 978-0-241-98407-9

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Mitford, Nancy

born Nov. 28, 1904, London, Eng.
died June 30, 1973, Versailles, France

British writer.

Born into an eccentric, aristocratic family, she became known for her witty satiric novels of upper-class life, including the quasi-autobiographical The Pursuit of Love (1945), Love in a Cold Climate (1949), The Blessing (1951), and Don't Tell Alfred (1960). A volume of essays she coedited, Noblesse Oblige (1956), popularized the distinction between linguistic usages that are "U" (upper-class) and "non-U." Her sister Jessica (1917–96) was a noted writer on U.S. society whose best-known book was The American Way of Death (1963).

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▪ British writer
married name  Honourable Mrs. Peter Rodd 
born Nov. 28, 1904, London, Eng.
died June 30, 1973, Versailles, France
 English writer noted for her witty novels of upper-class life.

      Nancy Mitford was one of six daughters (and one son) of the 2nd Baron Redesdale; the family name was actually Freeman-Mitford. The children were educated at home and were all highly original. Nancy's sister Unity (d. 1948) was notorious in Great Britain for her admiration of Adolf Hitler, and her sister Diana married Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, while Deborah became the wife of the 11th Duke of Devonshire. Her sister Jessica became a well-known writer on American society.

      Mitford's chief satirical novels are the quasi-autobiographical The Pursuit of Love (1945), Love in a Cold Climate (1949), The Blessing (1951), and Don't Tell Alfred (1960). These books chronicle the antics and attitudes of a family of eccentric English aristocrats headed by “Uncle Matthew,” who is a lively caricature of Mitford's own father, Lord Redesdale. Several biographies that Mitford wrote exhibit her Francophilia: Madame de Pompadour (1954), Voltaire in Love (1957), and The Sun King (1966), about Louis XIV. One of Mitford's most widely read books was Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy (1956), a volume of essays of which she was coeditor and which brought to the attention of the world the distinction between linguistic usages that are U (upper class) and those that are non-U (not upper class).

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Источник: Mitford, Nancy

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