American way of death revisited, Mitford,Jessica

Автор: Mitford, Jessica
Название: Hons And Rebels
ISBN: 0575400048 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780575400047
Издательство: Orion
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Описание: The classic memoir of one of the century`s most extraordinary familiesPerfect for fans of THE PURSUIT OF LOVE - A MAJOR NEW TV DRAMA

Автор: Nancy Mitford
Название: The Pursuit of Love
ISBN: 0241974682 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241974681
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the lookout for a perfect lover. But finding Mr Right is much harder than any of the sisters had thought. Linda must suffer marriage first to a stuffy Tory MP and then to a handsome and humourless communist, before finding real love in war-torn Paris...

Автор: Jessica Fellowes
Название: The Mitford Murders
ISBN: 0751567167 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780751567168
Издательство: Little, Brown
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Описание: A Golden Age-style murder mystery set amid the Mitford household, based on a real unsolved crime and written by Jessica Fellowes, author of the Downton Abbey books, The Mitford Murders is a glittering start to a thrilling and glamorous new crime series.

Автор: Guinness, Jonathan
Название: The House Of Mitford
ISBN: 0753818035 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753818039
Издательство: Orion
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Описание: The classic story of one of the twentieth century`s most extraordinary families - an extensively updated new edition.

Автор: Mitford, Jessica
Название: The American Way of Death Revisited
ISBN: 0679771867 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679771869
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 10100 T
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Описание: "Mitford's funny and unforgiving book is the best memento mori we are likely to get.It should be updated and reissued each decade for our spiritual health."--"The New York Review of Books"
Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an expose of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963 this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and resulted in legislation to protect grieving families from the unscrupulous sales practices of those in "the dismal trade."
Just before her death in 1996, Mitford thoroughly revised and updated her classic study. The American Way of Death Revisited confronts new trends, including the success of the profession's lobbyists in Washington, inflated cremation costs, the telemarketing of pay-in-advance graves, and the effects of monopolies in a death-care industry now dominated by multinational corporations. With its hard-nosed consumer activism and a satiric vision out of Evelyn Waugh's novel The Loved One, The American Way of Death Revisited will not fail to inform, delight, and disturb.
"Brilliant--hilarious--A must-read for anyone planning to throw a funeral in their lifetime."--"New York Post"
"Witty and penetrating--it speaks the truth."--"The Washington Post""

Автор: Mitford, Jessica
Название: Decca
ISBN: 0753822296 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753822296
Издательство: Orion
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Описание: /The enthralling letters by the most idiosyncratic, witty and irrepressible sisters of one of the most notorious families of the 20th century: Decca (Jessica) Mitford.

Автор: Nancy Mitford
Название: The Penguin Complete Novels of Nancy Mitford
ISBN: 1905490909 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781905490905
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 9240 T
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Автор: Mosley Charlotte, Mitford Deborah, Deborah Mitford
Название: Wait for Me!: Memoirs
ISBN: 0374207682 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374207687
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Цена: 16040 T
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Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood of six daughters and one son that included the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote, when Deborah was born, "How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl." Deborah's effervescent memoir "Wait for Me "chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood roaming the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with Adolf Hitler and her sister Unity in 1937, to her marriage to Andrew Cavendish, the second son of the Duke of Devonshire. Her life changed utterly with his unexpected inheritance of the title and vast estates after the wartime death of his brother, who had married "Kick" Kennedy, the beloved sister of John F. Kennedy. Her friendship with that family would last through triumph and tragedy.
In 1959, the Duchess and her family took up residence in Chatsworth, the four-hundred-year-old family seat, with its incomparable collections of paintings, tapestry, and sculpture--the combined accumulations of generations of tastemakers. Neglected due to the economies of two world wars and punitive inheritance taxes, the great house soon came to life again under the careful attention of the Duchess. It is regarded as one of England's most loved and popular historic houses.
"Wait for Me "is written with intense warmth, charm, and perception. A unique portrait of an age of tumult, splendor, and change, it is also an unprecedented look at the rhythms of life inside one of the great aristocratic families of England. With its razor-sharp portraits of the Duchess's many friends and cohorts--politicians, writers, artists, sportsmen--it is truly irresistible reading, and will join the shelf of Mitford classics to delight readers for years to come.

Автор: Mitford Jessica
Название: Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking
ISBN: 1590173554 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781590173558
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Jessica Mitford was a member of one of England's most legendary families (among her sisters were the novelist Nancy Mitford and the current Duchess of Devonshire) and one of the great muckraking journalists of modern times. Leaving England for America, she pursued a career as an investigative reporter and unrepentant gadfly, publicizing not only the misdeeds of, most famously, the funeral business ("The American Way of Death," a bestseller) and the prison business ("Kind and Usual Punishment"), but also of writing schools and weight-loss programs. Mitford's diligence, unfailing skepticism, and acid pen made her one of the great chroniclers of the mischief people get up to in the pursuit of profit and the name of good. "Poison Penmanship "collects seventeen of Mitford's finest pieces--about everything from crummy spas to network-TV censorship--and fills them out with the story of how she got the scoop and, no less fascinating, how the story developed after publication. The book is a delight to read: few journalists have ever been as funny as Mitford, or as gifted at getting around in those dark, cobwebbed corners where modern America fashions its shiny promises. It's also an unequaled and necessary manual of the fine art of investigative reporting.

Автор: Mitford N
Название: The Blessing
ISBN: 0140012117 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140012118
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 3400 T
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Описание: After the warnglish rose Grace joins her dashing aristocratic husband, Charles-Edouard, in France. She is out of her depth among the elegant French women and when she discovers her husband's tendency to lust after pretty girls, it seems that all is over - until her son Sigismund steps in.

Автор: Deborah Mitford Duchess, Mosley Charlotte
Название: Wait for Me!
ISBN: 0312610645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312610647
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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A "NEW YORK TIMES" EDITORS' CHOICE
Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy. "Wait for Me "chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood roaming the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with her sister Unity and Adolf Hitler in 1937, to her marriage to Andrew Cavendish, the second son of the Duke of Devonshire. Written with intense warmth, charm, and perception, "Wait for Me " is a unique portrait of an age of tumult, splendor, and change. "Touching . . . moving . . . and] compelling as a portrait of a vanishing world" ("The Wall Street Journal").

Автор: Mitford Nancy
Название: Love in a Cold Climate
ISBN: 030774082X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307740823
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 9470 T
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Описание: A sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars.

Polly Hampton has long been groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, the fearsome and ambitious Lady Montdore. But Polly, with her stunning good looks and impeccable connections, is bored by the monotony of her glittering debut season in London. Having just come from India, where her father served as Viceroy, she claims to have hoped that society in a colder climate would be less obsessed with love affairs. The apparently aloof and indifferent Polly has a long-held secret, however, one that leads to the shattering of her mother's dreams and her own disinheritance. When an elderly duke begins pursuing the disgraced Polly and a callow potential heir curries favor with her parents, nothing goes as expected, but in the end all find happiness in their own unconventional ways.

Featuring an introduction by Flora Fraser.