Christmas Pudding, Mitford, Nancy

Автор: Mitford, Nancy
Название: The Pursuit of Love
ISBN: 0241984076 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241984079
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: 'Obsessed with sex ' said Jassy, 'there's nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I so much as look at a picture you say I'm a pygmalionist.' In the end we got far more information out of a book called Ducks and Duck Breeding. 'Ducks can only copulate, ' said Linda, after studying this for a while, 'in running water. Good luck to them.' Oh the tedium of waiting to grow up Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the look out for the perfect lover. But finding Mr Right is much harder than any of the sisters thought. Linda must suffer marriage first to a stuffy Tory MP and then to a handsome and humorousless communist before finding real love in war-torn Paris . . . The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written.

Автор: Nancy Mitford
Название: Love in a Cold Climate
ISBN: 0141181494 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141181493
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Captures the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season, this is a comedy of English manners.

Автор: Mitford, Nancy
Название: Nancy mitford
ISBN: 1906142572 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781906142575
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 8440.00 T
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Описание: From the letters and materials Nancy Mitford had been gathering for her autobiography, this work draws a portrait of the author of "Love in a Cold Climate" and "The Pursuit of Love", who was so unhappy in love herself.

Автор: Nancy Mitford
Название: The Penguin Complete Novels of Nancy Mitford
ISBN: 1905490909 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781905490905
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 11700.00 T
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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,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: Mitford Nancy
Название: Love in a Cold Climate
ISBN: 030774082X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307740823
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 9780.00 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: Mosley Charlotte, Mitford Deborah, Deborah Mitford
Название: Wait for Me!: Memoirs
ISBN: 0374207682 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374207687
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 16550.00 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: Hastings, Selina
Название: Nancy mitford
ISBN: 0099429551 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099429555
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Selina Hastings captures equally the gaiety and frivolity and the unhappy truth of Nancy Mitford`s life: her failed marriage and her long, unfulfilled relationship with `the Colonel` contrasting sharply with literary celebrity and glittering social success.

Автор: Mitford, Jessica
Название: Decca
ISBN: 0753822296 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753822296
Издательство: Orion
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Цена: 13150.00 T
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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 Pursuit of Love
ISBN: 0241974682 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241974681
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 8790.00 T
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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: Fellowes, Jessica
Название: Mitford murders
ISBN: 0751567183 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780751567182
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: A Golden Age-style mystery bursting with period detail and set amid the Mitford household, The Mitford Murders is the glittering start to a thrilling and sumptuous new series written by Jessica Fellowes, author of the number one bestselling Downton Abbey books.