Voltaire in Love, Mitford, Nancy

Автор: Nancy Mitford
Название: Love in a Cold Climate
ISBN: 0241974690 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241974698
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, fearsome Lady Montdore, Polly instead scandalises society by declaring her love for her uncle `Boy` Dougdale, the Lecherous Lecturer, and promptly eloping to France. But the consequences of this union no one could quite expect...

Автор: Nancy Mitford
Название: Don`t Tell Alfred
ISBN: 0241974704 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241974704
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Fanny is married to absent-minded Oxford don Alfred and content with her role as a plain, tweedy housewife. But overnight her life changes when Alfred is appointed English Ambassador to Paris.

Автор: Nancy Mitford
Название: The Pursuit of Love
ISBN: 0241974682 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241974681
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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: Mitford Nancy
Название: Love in a Cold Climate
ISBN: 030774082X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307740823
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 10230 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.

Автор: Mitford, Jessica
Название: Decca
ISBN: 0753822296 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753822296
Издательство: Orion Publishers
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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.

Название: Mug - The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
ISBN: 0069403694 ISBN-13(EAN): 5060069403698
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 4310 T
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Автор: Mitford Nancy
Название: Highland Fling
ISBN: 0345806956 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345806956
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 10260 T
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Автор: Mitford Nancy
Название: Frederick the Great
ISBN: 1590176235 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781590176238
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 11510 T
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Описание: The Prussian king Frederick II is today best remembered for successfully defending his tiny country against the three great European powers of France, Austria, and Russia during the Seven Years' War. But in his youth, tormented by a spectacularly cruel and dyspeptic father, the future military genius was drawn to the flute and French poetry, and throughout his long life counted nothing more important than the company of good friends and great wits. This was especially evident in his longstanding, loving, and vexing relationship with Voltaire. An absolute ruler who was allergic to pomp, a non-hunter who wore no spurs, a reformer of great zeal who maintained complete freedom of the press and religion and cleaned up his country's courts, a fiscal conservative and patron of the arts, the builder of the rococo palace Sans Souci and improver of the farmers' lot, maddening to his rivals but beloved by nearly everyone he met, Frederick was--notwithstanding a penchant for merciless teasing--arguably the most humane of enlightened despots.

In Frederick the Great, a richly entertaining biography of one of the eighteenth century's most fascinating figures, the trademark wit of the author of Love in a Cold Climate finds its ideal subject.

Автор: Mitford Nancy
Название: Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie
ISBN: 034580662X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345806628
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 10860 T
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Описание: Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie are two sparkling comedies from early in the career of Nancy Mitford, beloved author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, here published in one volume with a new introduction by Jane Smiley.

In Christmas Pudding, an array of colorful characters converge on the hunt-obsessed Lady Bobbin's country house, including her rebellious daughter Philadelphia, the girl's pompous suitor, a couple of children obsessed with newspaper death notices, and an aspiring writer whose serious first novel has been acclaimed as the funniest book of the year, to his utter dismay. In Pigeon Pie, set at the outbreak of World War II, Lady Sophia Garfield dreams of becoming a beautiful spy but manages not to notice a nest of German agents right under her nose, until the murder of her maid and kidnapping of her beloved bulldog force them on her attention, with heroic results. Delivered with a touch lighter than that of Mitford's later masterpieces but no less entertaining, these comedies combine glamour, wit, and fiendishly absurd plots into irresistible literary confections.

Автор: Mitford,Jessica
Название: American way of death revisited
ISBN: 1860497624 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781860497629
Издательство: Little, Brown
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Описание: A savage and hilarious anatomy of America`s funeral practices - a classic by this famous English muckraker - revised just before her death `Outrageously appalling, wickedly funny and subversive` TIMES

Автор: Deborah Mitford Duchess, Mosley Charlotte
Название: Wait for Me!
ISBN: 0312610645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312610647
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Цена: 16700 T
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Описание:

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: Nancy Mitford
Название: Don`t Tell Alfred
ISBN: 0141044004 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141044002
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Reissue with a new introduction by Sophie Dahl.