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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels...

Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny ('the Bolter's girl'), on one of her frequent visits to their country estate: Uncle Matthew the blustering patriarch, owner of that bloodied entrenching tool above the fireplace, who hunts his children with bloodhounds, vague Aunt Sadie...

The Pursuit of love originally published in London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945 -- Love in a cold climate originally published in London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949.

This madcap masterpiece about growing up among the privileged and eccentric in England and finding love in all the wrong places is now the basis for a star-studded television series. Nancy Mitford modeled the characters in her best-known novel 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, know...

In one of the wittiest novels of them all, Nancy Mitford casts a finely gauged net to capture perfectly 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 between the wars by one of the most individual, beguiling and creative users of the language.

One of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written, Nancy Mitford's classic is now major BBC and Prime Video series directed by Emily Mortimer and starring Lily James, Andrew Scott and Dominic West'He was the great love of her life you know.''Oh, dulling, ' said my mother, sadly, 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.'Oh, the tedium of waiting to grow up! Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and...

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Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born in London, the eldest child of the second Baron Redesdale. She had written four novels, including Wigs on the Green (1935), before the success of The Pursuit of Love in 1945, which she followed with Love in a Cold Climate (1949), The Blessing (1951) and Don't Tell Alfred (1960). She also wrote four works of biography. Nancy Mitford was awarded the CBE in 1972.

The autobiography Nancy Mitford intended to write herself

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 diplomatico europeo degli anni Cinquanta: una vita di società gaia ma ancora formale, nella quale si affacciano a sorpresa i quattro figli ormai cresciuti della coppia, alfieri della rivoluzione giovanil...