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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.

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Chalford, eine idyllische Kleinstadt in den dreißiger Jahren. Eugenia, hoffnungsvolle Erbin des Malmain-Anwesens, macht ihrer Großmutter Kummer. Seit sie ihren treuen Begleiter "Reichshund" ruft, auf Waschzubern vor gelangweilten Hausfrauen faschistische Parolen skandiert und ihre Freunde mit erhobenem Arm begrüßt, fürchtet die Großmutter um den Frieden in ihrem Haus. Erst als zwei junge Männer mit ausgezeichneten Manieren auftauchen, schöpft ...

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.

Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford is a hilarious satire of the upper classes. Eugenia Malmains is one of the richest girls in England and an ardent supporter of Captain Jack and the Union Jackshirts, Noel and Jasper are both in search of an heiress (so much easier than trying to work for the money), Poppy and Marjorie are nursing lovelorn hearts, and the beautiful bourgeois Mrs Lace is on the prowl for someone near Eugenia's fabulous country ...

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.

Reissued with a new introduction by Zoe Heller.

Reissued with a new introduction by Alan Cumming.

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.

New editions of 4 classic biographies from Mitford, which are exclusive to Vintage Classics. "The Sun King" charts the life of Louis XIV.

Nancy Mitford was born in London on November 28 1904, daughter of the second Baron Redesdale, and the eldest of six girls. Her sisters included Lady Diana Mosley, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire and Jessica, who immortalised the Mitford family in her autobiography Hons and Rebels. The Mitford sisters came of age during the Roaring Twenties and wartime in London, and were well known for their beauty, upper-class bohemianism or political allegian...

When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV - from that day she was groomed to become 'a morsel fit for a King'.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMSFrederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become one of history's greatest rulers. He loved the flute, and devoted hours of study to the arts and French literature, forming a long-lasting but turbulent friendship with Voltaire. He was a military genius and enlarged the borders of his empire, but he also promoted religious tolerance, economic reform and lai...

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Publicada en 1935 en pleno ascenso del fascismo en Europa, Trifulca a la vista satiriza a los devotos seguidores del fascismo británico. La mimada Eugenia Malmains, una de las muchachas más ricas de Inglaterra, es una fiel seguidora del capitán Jack y sus camisas tricolores, el cosmopolita Noel Foster y su intrigante amigo Jasper Aspect van a la caza de una rica heredera, y Lady Marjorie, acompañada de su amiga Poppy, ha huido del revuelo prov...

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.

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Il primo romanzo di Nancy Mitford, in parte autobiografico, nel quale l'autrice ci offre un ritratto irriverente dei vizi e delle virtù della nobiltà inglese nella prima metà del nostro secolo: al centro della narrazione si trova la famiglia dei Radlett, signori di campagna dai gusti un po' eccentrici, presso i quali la nipote Fanny trascorre lunghi periodi della propria infanzia e adolescenza. Nei ricordi di Fanny ormai adulta spicca la cugin...

Uno scintillante alone di glamour e di gossip ha sempre circondato le sei celeberrime sorelle Mitford, figlie del barone Redesdale, e Nancy, la maggiore in ogni senso, ne ha trasferito sulla pagina riverberi screziati di veleno. Questa micidiale comedy of manners, ambientata tra le due guerre, mette in scena gli impossibili Montdore, di ritorno da cinque anni in India dove il conte, ricchissimo, aristocraticissimo, congenitamente stolido come ...