Results for "Mitford, Nancy"

Mitford’s most enduringly popular novel, The Pursuit of Love is a classic comedy about growing up and falling in love among the privileged and eccentric. Now an original series on Prime Video.“Mitford, describing in a tart and easy fashion the diverting activities of a titled English family, is... Read More about The Pursuit of Love (Radlett and Montdore #1)

A hardcover omnibus of the comic masterpieces that made Nancy Mitford famous: madcap tales of growing up among the privileged and eccentric in England and finding love in all the wrong places.Nancy Mitford modeled the characters in her two best-known novels on her own famously unconventional family.... Read More about The Pursuit of Love; Love in a Cold Climate: Introduction by Laura Thompson (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

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, ... Read More about Love in a Cold Climate (Radlett and Montdore #2)

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 (The New York Times) The Sun King is a dazzling double portrait of Louis XIV a... Read More about The Sun King

When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat, she was physically too cold for the carnal Bourbon king, and had so many enemies that she could not travel publicly without risking ... Read More about Madame de Pompadour

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. • “Exuberant...enjoyable skulduggery and shenanigans.” —... Read More about Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie