She also wrote biographies, translated from the French and edited a celebrated symposium on English Aristocrats. A member of one of the aristocracy’s more eccentric families, and educated at home with a clutch of siblings, Mitford used childhood experience, lightly fictionalised, in her comic novels, including The Pursuit of Love (1945). Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born in London. Love in a Cold Climate by Mitford Nancy Love in a Cold Climate Love in a Cold Climate Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels (Penguin Modern Classics) Love. But beneath the glittering surfaces and perfectly timed comic dialogue, Nancy Mitford’s novels are also touching hymns to a lost era and to the brevity of life and love from one of the most individual, beguiling and creative users of the language. In The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate and The Blessing, her extraordinary heroines deal with armies of hilariously eccentric relatives, the excitement of love and passion, and the thrills of the social Season. Nancy Mitford’s brilliantly witty, irreverent stories of the upper classes in pre-war London and Paris conjure up a world of glamour, gossip and decadence. The book is dedicated to Lord Berners, on whom Mitford based her character Lord Merlin.Nancy Mitford’s Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels casts a finely gauged net to capture perfectly the foibles and fancies of the English upper class, and includes an introduction by Philip Hensher in Penguin Modern Classics.
The eccentric Radlett family modelled on the Mitford parents and sisters are again present.
The novel is again narrated by Fanny Logan but this time focuses on the life, love and travails of her distant cousin Polly Hampton. Very good, in very good dust jacket light shelf wear to jacket, light wear to front top-edge, forecorners and spine ends, with slight loss and creasing to head of spine, light rubbing to edges, slight marks to white rear panel, neatly price-clipped slight mottling to red boards, slight lean to spine, internally clean with no inscriptions the dust jacket is hard to find in this presentable condition.Ī first edition of Nancy Mitford's companion volume to The Pursuit of Love. Hardback red cloth-bound boards, dust jacket.
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