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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.
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The Pursuit of love, Nancy Mitford
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- Released
- 1970
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- Title
- The Pursuit of love
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Nancy Mitford
- Publisher
- Penquin Book
- Released
- 1970
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN10
- 0140007113
- ISBN13
- 9780140007114
- Series
- Radlett and Montdore
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Humor, Classics, Love, Family, Friendship, Military Fiction, Wars, France, British Literature, 20th century, Society, England, Great Britain, London, Aristocracy, nobility
- Original title
- The pursuit of love
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- 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.