The Pursuit of Love; Love in a Cold Climate: Introduction by Laura Thompson

The Pursuit of Love; Love in a Cold Climate: Introduction by Laura Thompson - Hardcover

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The Pursuit of Love; Love in a Cold Climate: Introduction by Laura Thompson - Hardcover

The Pursuit of Love; Love in a Cold Climate: Introduction by Laura Thompson - Hardcover

by Nancy Mitford
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Book Overview

A hardcover omnibus of the comic masterpieces that made Nancy Mitford famous: madcap tales of growing up among the privileged and eccentric in England and finding love in all the wrong places.

Nancy Mitford modeled the characters in her two best-known novels on her own famously unconventional family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin Fanny, visiting their Gloucestershire estate. Uncle Matthew is the blustering patriarch, known to hunt his children when foxes are scarce; Aunt Sadie is the vague but doting mother; and the seven Radlett children are recklessly eager to grow up.

The Pursuit of Love follows the travails of Linda, the most beautiful and wayward Radlett daughter, who falls first for a stuffy Tory politician, then an ardent communist, and finally a French duke named Fabrice.

Love in a Cold Climate focuses on Polly Hampton, long groomed for the perfect marriage by her fearsome mother, Lady Montdore, but secretly determined to find her own path. Together these hilarious novels vividly evoke the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
ISBN9780593321270
Author Nancy Mitford
PublisherEveryman's Library
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedMarch 2022
LanguageENG- English
Pages504
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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The Pursuit of Love; Love in a Cold Climate: Introduction by Laura Thompson - Hardcover

The Pursuit of Love; Love in a Cold Climate: Introduction by Laura Thompson - Hardcover

By Nancy Mitford

About Nancy Mitford

Nancy Mitford, daughter of Lord and Lady Redesdale and the eldest of the six legendary Mitford sisters, was born in 1904 and educated at home on the family estate in Oxfordshire. She made her debut in London and soon became one of the bright young things of the 1920s, a close friend of Henry Green, Evelyn Waugh, John Betjeman, and their circle. A beauty and a wit, she began writing for magazines and writing novels while she was still in her twenties. In all, she wrote eight novels as well as biographies of Madame de Pompadour, Voltaire, Louis XIV, and Frederick the Great. She died in 1973. More information can be found at www.nancymitford.com.

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