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Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford
Category: Fiction
British high society, spy stories, and goofy religious cults are all gently mocked in this inventive, stylish satire. When the highly imaginative Lady Sophia Garfield discovers a nest of very real German spies in her home, nobody believes her. With her maid murdered and her beloved bulldog held hostage, ...Show more
The Blessing by Nancy Mitford
Category: Fiction
The Blessing by Nancy Mitford. It isn't just Nanny who finds it difficult in France when Grace and her young son Sigi are finally able to join her dashing aristocratic husband Charles-Edouard after the war. For Grace is out of her depth among the fashionably dressed and immaculately coiffured French wom ...Show more
The Blessing by Nancy Mitford
Category: Fiction
"The Blessing" by Nancy Mitford with an introduction by Alex Kapranos. It isn't just Nanny who finds it difficult in France when Grace and her young son Sigi are finally able to join her dashing aristocratic husband Charles-Edouard after the war. For Grace is out of her depth among the fashionably dress ...Show more
The Complete Novels by Nancy Mitford
Category: Fiction
The Penguin Complete Novels of Nancy Mitford. Here in one volume are all eight of Nancy Mitford's sparklingly astute, hilarious and completely unputdownable novels: Highland Fling, Christmas Pudding, Wigs on the Green, Pigeon Pie, The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate, The Blessing and Don't Tell ...Show more
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh; Nancy Mitford
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
With an Introduction by Charlotte Mosley 'Their correspondence can make you rock with helpless laughter'Independent on SundayNancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were two of the twentieth century's most amusing and gifted writers, who matched wits and traded literary advice in more than five hundred letters o ...Show more
The Penguin Complete Novels of Nancy Mitford by Nancy Mitford
Category: Fiction
n print together for the first time in many years, and here in one volume, are ALL eight of Nancy Mitford's sparklingly astute, hilarious and completely unputdownable novels, with a new introduction by India Knight. HIGHLAND FLING (1931) CHRISTMAS PUDDING (1932) WIGS ON THE GREEN (1935) PIGEON PIE (1940 ...Show more
The Penguin Complete Novels of Nancy Mitford by Nancy Mitford
Category: Fiction
Provides a glimpse of the bright young things of the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties in the city and in the shires. In print together for the first time in many years, and here in one volume, are ALL eight of Nancy Mitford's sparklingly astute, hilarious and completely unputdownable novels, with ...Show more
The Princess de Clèves (riverrun Editions) by Nancy Mitford (Translator); Madame de Lafayette; Alice Oswald (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
'Always be civil to the girls. You never know whom they might marry.' Nancy Mitford, from her introduction to The Princess de Clèves When the young, beautiful Mademoiselle de Chartres comes to court, her primary objective is to find herself a husband. Upon her mother's recommendation, she accepts the a ...Show more
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Category: Fiction
Nancy Mitford's "The Pursuit of Love" is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written. 'Obsessed with sex!' said Jassy, 'there's nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I so much as look at a picture you say I'm a pygmalionist.' In the end we got more information out of a ...Show more
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Category: Classic Fiction
'Obsessed with sex!' said Jassy, 'there's nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I so much as look at a picture you say I'm a pygmalionist.'In the end we got far more information out of a book called Ducks and Duck Breeding.'Ducks can only copulate,' said Linda, after studying this for a while, 'in ru ...Show more
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'Obsessed with sex ' said Jassy, 'there's nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I so much as look at a picture you say I'm a pygmalionist.' In the end we got far more information out of a book called Ducks and Duck Breeding. 'Ducks can only copulate, ' said Linda, after studying this for a while, 'in ...Show more