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The Bookshop At 10 Curzon Street (2004)
Letters Between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-73
by Nancy Mitford
'"This book is a little gem.'" Sunday Times "On every page there is at least one thought-provoking insight into life or literature and probably a laugh-out-loud moment for good measure.'" Country Life "An elegant and entertaining vignette." Antonia Fraser, The Spectator First time... (learn more about this book)
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The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh (1996)
by Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh
Two of the twentieth century's most gifted writers exchange insults and match wits in an irreverent dialogue about themselves and the literary and social circles of London and Paris at midcentury, in a colorful and evocative collection of correspondence. (learn more about this book)
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Love from Nancy (1993)
by Nancy Mitford
From the best-selling author of The Pursuit of Love and The Sun King comes a collection of her witty letters to Evelyn Waugh, Harold Acton, Christopher Sykes, Robert Byron, and other notable correspondents. 15,000 first printing. (learn more about this book)
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A Talent to Annoy (1987)
by Nancy Mitford
Nancy Mitford was the eldest and most famous of the Mitfords. However, before she shot to fame as a novelist with "The Pursuit of Love," she had gathered a huge following with articles pouring drops of acid on the pretensions of the aristocracy. A relentless tease, she wrote brilliant... (learn more about this book)
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Frederick the Great (1970)
by Nancy Mitford
In this biography of Frederick the Great, Nancy Mitford carefully unravels the complex character of one of Europe's brilliant rulers. She re-creates his unhappy youth; his reforming zeal, which paved the way for a united Germany; and his spectacular wars. (learn more about this book)
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The Sun King (1966)
by Nancy Mitford
This work takes as its subject Louis XIV at Versailles - from the moment he decided to transform his father's hunting lodge into the greatest palace in Europe to his death there 54 years later. It covers the daily life of the king, the court and the government during the period of France's apogee... (learn more about this book)
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The Water Beetle (1962)
by Nancy Mitford
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Don't Tell Alfred (1960)
by Nancy Mitford
This brilliantly funny novel revisits some of the characters from Nancy Mitford's earlier stories including Fanny, who is married to bumbling, absent-minded Oxford don, Alfred. Fanny is content in her role as a tweedy housewife with 'ghastly' clothes, but her life changes overnight when Alfred is... (learn more about this book)
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Voltaire in Love (1957)
by Nancy Mitford
In 1733, the lovely, intelligent, and married Marquise du Chtelet commenced her romance with one Franois-Marie Arouet, a philosophe who had made a name for himself as "Voltaire." Mitford deftly and engagingly recounts their exemplary affair, whether in studious exile in the country, on the run... (learn more about this book)
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Noblesse Oblige (1956)
An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy
by Nancy Mitford
Until Nancy Mitford wrote "The English Aristocracy" in 1955, England was blissfully unconscious of U-Usage and its lethal implications. The phenomenon of "Upper-Class English Usage" had, it is true, already been remarked upon by Professor Alan Ross who, in an academic paper printed in Helsinki a... (learn more about this book)
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