Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Born into 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. She also wrote biographies, translated from the French and edited a celebrated symposium on English Aristocrats. Zusammenfassung Captures 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.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Mitford
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.02.2000
• EAN: 9780141181493
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118149-3
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; Penguin Pocketbooks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary