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Nancy Mitford
Catapultata dalla tediosa cerchia accademica di Oxford fino all'ambasciata britannica a Parigi, dove il marito Alfred è stato inopinatamente nominato ambasciatore, Fanny, la narratrice, ci fa assaporare gli aspetti più esilaranti dell'ambiente di
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Nancy Mitford
Prima di «Rincorrendo l'amore», Nancy Mitford – la maggiore delle sei bellissime, stravaganti e alquanto scandalose figlie del barone Redesdale – aveva scritto quattro romanzi: con scarso successo e scarsissimi benefici per le sue pre
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Nancy Mitford
«... le sei sorelle Mitford divennero una leggenda tuttora venerata non solo in Gran Bretagna, per le loro vite sconvenienti, o politicamente riprovevoli, o per aver lasciato lettere, memorie, romanzi, di squisita intelligenza... Tutta la famiglia e
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Nancy Mitford
In Highland Fling—Nancy Mitford's first novel, published in 1931—a set of completely incompatible and hilariously eccentric characters collide in a Scottish castle, where bright young things play pranks on their stodgy elders until the frothy plo
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Nancy Mitford
Two sparkling comedies from early in the career of the beloved author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, here published in one volume with a new introduction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres. • “Exubera
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Nancy Mitford
An entertaining royal biography of Prussian king Frederick the Great—a fascinating character with conflicting visions of authority and reform, power and art—from “one of Britain's most piercing observers of social manners” (New York Times).Th
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Nancy Mitford, Joseph Connolly
Published a year after Nancy Mitford's first novel Highland Fling, Christmas Pudding gives a flavour of life for the Bright Young Things of the twenties and thirties, and a taste of what was to come in her later novels. Though foot-and-mouth disea
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Nancy Mitford
The inimitable Nancy Mitford's account of Voltaire's fifteen-year relationship with the Marquise du Châtelet—the renowned mathematician who introduced Isaac Newton's revolutionary new physics to France—is a spirited romp in the company of two ex
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Nancy Mitford
A “devastatingly witty” biography of Louis XIV and the Court of Versailles—at once a historical record of late 17th- and early 18th-century France and a gossip-filled narrative of lovers and rivals, artists and warriors (New York Times) The Sun
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Nancy Mitford
Nancy Mitford's most controversial novel, unavailable for decades, is a hilarious satirical send-up of the fascist political enthusiasms of her sisters Unity and Diana, and of her notorious brother-in-law, Sir Oswald Mosley.Written in 1934, early in