Nancy Mitford
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| Original Title: | The Pursuit of Love |
| ISBN: | 0140007113 (ISBN13: 9780140007114) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.nancymitford.com/index.php/the-pursuit-of-love-1945 |
| Series: | Radlett and Montdore #1 |
| Characters: | Linda Radlett, Matthew Radlett, Fanny Wincham, Aunt Emily, David Warbeck, Lord Merlin, Sadie Radlett, Jassy, Matt, Robin and Vicki Radlett, Louisa Radlett, The Bolter, Tony Kroesig, Christian Talbot, Fabrice Sauveterre, Alfred Wincham, Lavender Davis |
| Setting: | Gloucestershire, England,1939(United Kingdom) |
| Literary Awards: | Premi Llibreter de narrativa Nominee (2006) |
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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.Particularize Regarding Books The Pursuit of Love (Radlett and Montdore #1)
| Title | : | The Pursuit of Love (Radlett and Montdore #1) |
| Author | : | Nancy Mitford |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | 1999 by Penguin Books Limited (first published 1945) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Romance. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. British Literature. Humor. Literature. 20th Century |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018ft1mDescription: Fanny Logan tells the story of her beloved aristocratic cousins, the Radletts, and in particular Linda, who is beautiful and loves animals. Uncle Mathew hunts his children with bloodhounds (to the horror of respectable families in the local village) and keeps a blood-spattered entrenching tool above the fireplace as a relic of his experiences in the First World War. The cousins spend much of their childhood in the airing cupboard - the onlySUMMARY FROM THE BOOK Nancy Mitfords most enduringly popular novel, The Pursuit of Love is a classic comedy about growing up and falling in love among the privileged and eccentric. Mitford modeled her characters on her own famously unconventional family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin Fanny, who stays with them at Alconleigh, their Gloucestershire estate. Uncle Matthew is the blustering patriarch, known to hunt his children when foxes are scarce; Aunt Sadie is
I wanted to like this novel (as it was recommended to me by a good friend), but I really didn't. It's famous, and has had movies and Broadway shows inspired by it--but I couldn't come to like it, or love it, as others do. The main character is insufferable; I think we are supposed to love her? I supposed if I could see the literary quality of the text, I would be less inclined to dislike it, that is, if I could see a particular literary quality. The main character is the type of character for
Last year I unwittingly read the 1949 sequel, Love in a Cold Climate, first. I rather enjoyed that one, but somehow wasnt in the mood for Mitford this time around, and ended up just skimming this one. Once again Fanny traces the love life of one of her posh cousins. This time its Linda Radlett, whose two marriages to a Conservative and a Communist are doomed to failure. Then she finds her true love, too late. I liked the ball scene, and the image of Uncle Matthew using his bloodhounds to hunt
After some of the books I have read recently interesting ones, but with prose that's ranged from workmanlike to experimental it was a huge pleasure to indulge myself with a writer that has such perfect mastery over her sentences. This sparkling, clear-sighted and unromantic romantic comedy is a little chef d'œuvre of wit and dazzling conversation, in which Mitford deploys the same mannered levity to write about great tragedy that she does to describe an amusing misunderstanding at a dinner
As you know, in white bread the germ, with its wonderful health-giving properties, is eliminated extracted, I should say and put into chicken food. As a result the human race is becoming enfeebled, while hens grow larger and stronger with every generation.This little book is stuffed with people who have the most curious opinions of everything. Theyre all aristocrats, Lord this, Lady that, the Honorable whatever. And the family Nancy is telling us about a version of her own, of course is even
I regard The Pursuit of Love as a pristine example of hilarity upheld with a fist. Chuckles pervade on almost every page while always reinforcing life's injustice. The risible drifts into a bruised silence. In very unequal measures, The Pursuit of Love is much more Candide than Emma.
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