Nancy Mitford

En A la caza del amor, su novela de mayor éxito, Nancy Mitford utiliza elementos reales de su extravagante y famosa familia para construir el relato. La acción se abre en el salón de Alconleigh, la

Oh the boredom of waiting to grow up! Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny fantasize about the perfect lover. But finding Mr Right proves difficult and Linda must bear marriage with both Tony the stuffy Tory MP and gorgeously handsome but humourless communist Christian before finding real passion in war-torn Paris with Fabrice.

The writer and poet Harold Acton was - like Nancy Mitford herself - one of the Bright Young Things, and a life-long friend with whom she stayed in touch. From the letters and materials she had been gathering for her autobiography, Acton draws an irresistibly sparkling portrait of the author of Love in a Cold Climate and The Pursuit of Love, who was so unhappy in love herself. Full of her waspish wit, gossip, and the drops of acid she liked to pour on the pretensions of her time, Acton paints a fresh portrait that is unlikely to be surpassed

Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the infamous Mitford sisters. Nancy Mitford''s most famous novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, satirize 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.

It isnt 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 women, and shocked by their relentless gossiping and bedhopping.

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.

Nancys sisters Unity and Diana were furious with her for making fun of Dianas husband, Oswald Moseley, and his politics, and the book caused a rift between them all that endured for years. Nancy Mitford skewers her family and their beliefs with her customary jewelled barbs, but there is froth, comedy and heart here too.

Part of a newly designed Nancy Mitford series.'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 running water. Good luck to them.Oh the tedium of waiting to grow up! Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the look out for the perfect lover. But finding Mr Right is much harder than any of the sisters thought. Linda must suffer marriage first to a stuffy Tory MP and then to a handsome and humorousless communist before finding real love in war-torn Paris . . .The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written.

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 a new introduction

Voltaire, el filósofo e intelectual esencial del siglo de las luces, al enterarse de que otra vez está por ser detenido, se refugia en el castillo de la marquesa Émilie du Châtelet, matemática, físic

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 book called Ducks and Duck Breeding. 'Ducks can only copulate,' said Linda, after studying this for a while, 'in running water. Good luck to them.' Oh, the tedium of waiting to grow up! Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the lookout for the perfect lover. But finding Mr Right is much harder than any of the sisters had thought. Linda must suffer marriage first to a stuffy Tory MP and then to a handsome and humourless communist, before finding real love in war-torn Paris. . . 'Utter, utter bliss' Daily Mail

La casa de campo de los Radlett es una fuente de inspiración. Allí conviven un padre malhumorado, un tío extravagante, una madre piadosa y una muchacha que se sobrepone a las rarezas familiares para buscar un amor verdadero. La novela trasciende el romanticismo para retratar a fondo la alta sociedad britanica sacudida por la guerra. Un libro sasgaz, apasionante, testimonio de un tiempo con sus personajes reales. Nancy Mitford fue una afamada autora proveniente de la aristocracia, sus hermanas fueron singulares y heterodoxas: Unity se adhirio al nazismo, Jessica en cambio se hizo comunista.

En A la caza del amor, su novela de mayor éxito, Nancy Mitford utiliza elementos reales de su extravagante y famosa familia para construir el relato.La acción se abre en el salón de Alconleigh, la casa de campo de los Radlett. Ante nuestros ojos van desfilando los distintos miembros de la familia: el malhumorado padre, tio Matthew, con sus violentos y comicos estallidos de colera y sus curiosos pasatiempos, como organizar cacerias en las que las piezas son alguno de sus hijos; la ausente y devota madre, Sadie; y los siete hijos que junto a su prima Fanny forman una estrafalaria y divertidisima familia. Pero realmente es la joven Linda Radlett y su permanente busqueda del amor el autentico centro de esta historia. A traves de sus paginas la acompañaremos en su azarosa conquista y conoceremos a los distintos hombres en los que creyo encontrarlo.El texto despliega el famoso ingenio satirico y la extraordinaria capacidad de la autora para reconstruir el ambiente, la vida y las personas en los circulos aristocraticos ingleses de entreguerras. Un libro inteligente y divertido, que, aunque pudiera gustar simplemente por lo que es: una novela vibrante y mordaz, es tambien un verdadero trozo de vida.

Un sonado affaire sentimental entre la bellísima Polly y su tío escandaliza a la aristocracia británica. Lady Montdore está empeñada en arreglar el mejor matrimonio para su hija Polly, pero sus esfuerzos seran en vano. Antes que a un conde o, incluso, a algun monarca extranjero, Polly prefiere a su viejo y lascivo tio. Con el ingenio satirico de siempre, Nancy Mitford regresa a los espacios y personajes de A la caza del amor, para dejar la aristocracia britanica al desnudo una vez mas.