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1. The Pursuit of love

   • Nancy Mitford

   • 192pagine
   • 7 ore di lettura

   Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the infamous Mitford sisters. Nancy Mitford's most famous novel, The Pursuit of Love satirizes British aristocracy in the twenties and thirties through the amorous adventures of the Radletts, an exuberantly unconventional family closely modelled on Mitford's own.The Radletts of Alconleigh occupy the heights of genteel eccentricity, from terrifying Lord Alconleigh (who, like Mitford's father, used to hunt his children with bloodhounds when foxes were not available), to his gentle wife, Sadie, their wayward daughter Linda, and the other six lively Radlett children. Mitford's wickedly funny prose follows these characters through misguided marriages and dramatic love affairs, as the shadow of World War II begins to close in on their rapidly vanishing world.

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2. L'amore in un clima freddo

   • Nancy Mitford

   • 280pagine
   • 10 ore di lettura

   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 fra le due guerre, mette in scena gli impossibili Montdore, di ritorno da cinque anni in India dove il conte, ricchissimo, aristocraticissimo, congenitamente stolido, era Viceré. La consorte, di una prosaicità adamantina, sguazza nell'alta società, e la figlia Polly, la debuttante più concupita dai giovani blasonati che affollano i balli della Stagione, decide per capriccio di farsi impalmare dallo zio, Boy Dougdale, di lei molto più vecchio e da pochi giorni vedovo, maestro nell'arte del ricamo nonché per anni amante della madre. Diseredata ipso facto, si ritira con il marito a vivere «di stenti» in Sicilia. A par­­tire da questo gesto deflagrante, nulla nelle varie magioni avite sarà più come prima; e grazie a una esilarante concatenazione di eventi, narrati con somma ironia da Fanny, la quieta e inesorabile amica d'infanzia di Polly, sopraggiungeranno altri scandali a scuotere il bel mondo. Ma non l'autrice, testimone in vita di svariate nefandezze e bizzarrie – e men che meno il lettore, irretito da tanto candore e cinismo, con punte memorabili di spasso e malizia.

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3. Don't tell Alfred

   • Nancy Mitford

   Don't Tell Alfred is the wickedly funny sequel to Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate. 'I believe it would have been normal for me to have paid a visit to the outgoing ambassadress. However the said ambassadress had set up such an uninhibited wail when she knew she was to leave, proclaiming her misery to all and sundry and refusing so furiously to look on the bright side, that it was felt she might not be very nice to me.' 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. In the blink of an eye, Fanny's mixing with royalty, Rothschilds and Dior-clad wives, throwing cocktail parties and having every indiscreet remark printed in tomorrow's papers. But with the love lives of her new friends to organize, an aristocratic squatter who won't budge and the antics of her maverick sons to thwart, Fanny's far too busy to worry about the diplomatic crisis looming on the horizon. . . Don't Tell Alfred continues the histories of the characters Nancy Mitford introduced in The Pursuit of Love. 'A comic genius' Independent on Sunday 'Deliciously funny' Evelyn Waugh

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