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2022 |
![]() ![]() Author: Mitford Nancy Publisher: Adelphi Prima di 'Rincorrendo l'amore', Nancy Mitford - la maggiore delle sei bellissime, stravaganti e alquanto scandalose figlie del barone Redesdale - aveva scritto quattro romanzi: con scarso successo e scarsissimi benefici per le sue precarie finanze. Fu l'amico Evelyn Waugh a incoraggiarla a riprovarci; e fu l'incontro con l'uomo che sarebbe diventato il grande amore della sua vita (Gaston Palewski, colonnello delle forze armate della Francia libera) a fornirle l'ispirazione. Non a caso nel libro, a lui dedicato, Palewski compare sotto le spoglie del seducente Fabrice, che farà innamorare di sé Linda, la svagata e incantevole protagonista. E questa volta il successo fu immediato e fenomenale, poiché a un pubblico provato dagli stenti della guerra il romanzo forniva i suoi ingredienti preferiti: l'amore, l'infanzia, i veleni e il fascino inesauribile dell'alta società inglese. «Come tutti i grandi romanzi», ha scritto Alan Bennett, 'Rincorrendo l'amore' è «un altro mondo», che dopo oltre tre quarti di secolo non ha perso un grammo della sua piacevolezza. Un mondo in cui Nancy Mitford mette in scena i suoi personaggi, inguaribilmente eccentrici ma dalle maniere impeccabili, protagonisti di amori ardenti e insieme ridicoli, con un perfetto dosaggio di ironia, indulgenza e ferocia. € 18,00
Scontato: € 17,10
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1918 |
![]() ![]() Author: Nancy Mitford Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP € 12,75
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2018 |
![]() ![]() Author: Mitford Nancy Publisher: Adelphi Catapultata dalla tediosa cerchia accademica di Oxford fino all'ambasciata britannica a Parigi, dove il marito Alfred è stato inopinatamente nominato ambasciatore, Fanny, la narratrice, ci fa assaporare gli aspetti più esilaranti dell'ambiente diplomatico europeo degli anni Cinquanta: una vita di società gaia ma ancora formale, nella quale si affacciano a sorpresa i quattro figli ormai cresciuti della coppia, alfieri della rivoluzione giovanile ai suoi albori. E se i personaggi di Nancy Mitford, come lei stessa ebbe a dire, «vivono in un mondo di superlativi», il migliore esempio ne è senz'altro la divina Northey, giovanissima segretaria particolare di Fanny, che dopo aver messo a soqquadro col suo fascino il bel mondo parigino ci elargisce un mirabolante finale. € 12,00
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1917 |
![]() ![]() Author: Nancy Mitford Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP € 12,30
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![]() ![]() Author: MITFORD NANCY Publisher: Actes Sud UNE ANGLAISE A PARIS : CHRONIQ - MITFORD NANCY - Actes Sud € 9,60
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![]() ![]() Author: MITFORD NANCY Publisher: Interforum CHARIVARI - MITFORD NANCY - Interforum € 10,90
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1916 |
![]() ![]() Author: MITFORD NANCY Publisher: Interforum HIGHLAND FLING - MITFORD NANCY - Interforum € 11,30
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1915 |
![]() ![]() Author: Nancy Mitford Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP € 10,60
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![]() ![]() Author: Nancy Mitford Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP € 23,50
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![]() ![]() Author: Nancy Mitford Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP € 10,60
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![]() ![]() Author: Nancy Mitford Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP € 10,60
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2015 |
![]() ![]() Author: Mitford Nancy Publisher: Adelphi Chi non fosse pago della scintillante mondanità di 'L'amore in un clima freddo' potrà ora continuare a leggere le avventure di Fanny, la narratrice, che dopo averci raccontato la storia della sua bislacca e aristocratica famiglia ci parla finalmente di sé. Catapultata dalla tediosa cerchia accademica di Oxford fino all'ambasciata britannica a Parigi, dove il marito Alfred è stato inopinatamente nominato ambasciatore, Madame l'Ambassadrice ci fa assaporare gli aspetti più esilaranti dell'ambiente diplomatico europeo degli anni Cinquanta: una vita di società gaia ma ancora formale, nella quale si affacciano a sorpresa i quattro figli ormai cresciuti della coppia, alfieri della rivoluzione giovanile ai suoi albori. E se i personaggi di Nancy Mitford, come lei stessa ebbe a dire, 'vivono in un mondo di superlativi', il migliore esempio ne è senz'altro la divina Northey, giovanissima segretaria particolare di Fanny, che dopo aver messo a soqquadro col suo fascino il bel mondo parigino ci elargisce un mirabolante finale. € 18,00
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2014 |
![]() ![]() Author: Mitford Nancy Publisher: Adelphi Uno scintillante alone di glamour e di gossip ha sempre circondato le sei celeberrime sorelle Mitford, figlie del barone Redesdale, e Nancy, la maggiore in ogni senso, ne ha trasferito sulla pagina riverberi screziati di veleno. Questa micidiale comedy of manners, ambientata tra le due guerre, mette in scena gli impossibili Montdore, di ritorno da cinque anni in India dove il conte, ricchissimo, aristocraticissimo, congenitamente stolido come i suoi degni pari, era Viceré. La consorte, di una prosaicità adamantina, neanche fosse di origini borghesi o americane, sguazza nel bel mondo. E la figlia Polly, la debuttante più concupita dai giovani blasonati che affollano i balli della stagione, decide per capriccio di farsi impalmare dallo zio, Boy Dougdale, di lei molto più vecchio e da pochi giorni vedovo, maestro nell'arte del ricamo nonché per anni amante della madre. Diseredata ipso facto, si ritira con il marito a vivere 'di stenti' in Sicilia. L'eredità passa così a uno spumeggiante cugino canadese, affermato gigolò per signori, e basteranno un paio di sue battute perché Lady Montdore, titillata nel suo organo vitale, la mondanità, si rituffi nel girone festaiolo. Dove finirà per tornare anche Polly, ormai tanto disincantata da reagire ridendo alle sue disgrazie: non per niente siamo in Arcadia, e mentre lei trova un consolatore, saranno ben altri scandali a scuotere tutta l'alta società. € 12,00
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1913 |
![]() ![]() Author: Mitford Nancy, Fellowes Julian (FRW) Publisher: Vintage Books In Highland Fling—Nancy Mitford’s first novel, published in 1931—a set of completely incompatible and hilariously eccentric characters collide in a Scottish castle, where bright young things play pranks on their stodgy elders until the frothy plot climaxes in ghost sightings and a dramatic fire. Inspired in part by Mitford’s youthful infatuation with a Scottish aristocrat, her story follows young Jane Dacre to a shooting party at Dulloch Castle, where she tramps around a damp and chilly moor on a hunting expedition with formidable Lady Prague, xenophobic General Murgatroyd, one-eyed Admiral Wenceslaus, and an assortment of other ancient and gouty peers of the realm, while falling in love with Albert, a surrealist painter with a mischievous sense of humor. Lighthearted and sparkling with witty banter, Highland Fling was Mitford’s first foray into the delightful fictional world for which the author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate later became so celebrated. With an Introduction by Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey. € 14,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Mitford Nancy, Smiley Jane (FRW) Publisher: Vintage Books Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie are two sparkling comedies from early in the career of Nancy Mitford, beloved author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, here published in one volume with a new introduction by Jane Smiley. In Christmas Pudding, an array of colorful characters converge on the hunt-obsessed Lady Bobbin’s country house, including her rebellious daughter Philadelphia, the girl’s pompous suitor, a couple of children obsessed with newspaper death notices, and an aspiring writer whose serious first novel has been acclaimed as the funniest book of the year, to his utter dismay. In Pigeon Pie, set at the outbreak of World War II, Lady Sophia Garfield dreams of becoming a beautiful spy but manages not to notice a nest of German agents right under her nose, until the murder of her maid and kidnapping of her beloved bulldog force them on her attention, with heroic results. Delivered with a touch lighter than that of Mitford’s later masterpieces but no less entertaining, these comedies combine glamour, wit, and fiendishly absurd plots into irresistible literary confections. € 14,80
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![]() ![]() Author: Mitford Nancy, Schillinger Liesl (INT) Publisher: New York Review of Books The Prussian king Frederick II is today best remembered for successfully defending his tiny country against the three great European powers of France, Austria, and Russia during the Seven Years’ War. But in his youth, tormented by a spectacularly cruel and dyspeptic father, the future military genius was drawn to the flute and French poetry, and throughout his long life counted nothing more important than the company of good friends and great wits. This was especially evident in his longstanding, loving, and vexing relationship with Voltaire. An absolute ruler who was allergic to pomp, a non-hunter who wore no spurs, a reformer of great zeal who maintained complete freedom of the press and religion and cleaned up his country’s courts, a fiscal conservative and patron of the arts, the builder of the rococo palace Sans Souci and improver of the farmers’ lot, maddening to his rivals but beloved by nearly everyone he met, Frederick was—notwithstanding a penchant for merciless teasing—arguably the most humane of enlightened despots. In Frederick the Great, a richly entertaining biography of one of the eighteenth century’s most fascinating figures, the trademark wit of the author of Love in a Cold Climate finds its ideal subject. € 16,10
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1912 |
![]() ![]() Author: Mitford Nancy, Gopnik Adam (INT) Publisher: New York Review of Books The inimitable Nancy Mitford's account of Voltaire's sixteen-year affair with the comely Marquise du Châtelet—in her own right a renowned mathematician and original expositor of Newtonian ideas—is a spirited romp in the company of two extraordinary individuals as well as an erudite and gossipy guide to French high society during the Enlightenment. The lusty and algebra-obsessed marquise, it so happens, was also in love with another mathematician, Maupertuis, and devoted to gambling besides. She had a rival for Voltaire's affections in the future Frederick the Great of Prussia, and later in the scampish philosophe's own niece. There was, at least, no jealous husband to contend with; the Marquis du Châtelet, the author assures us, always behaved perfectly. It was in fact the couple's Parisian contemporaries who reacted the worst, not so much with sexual jealously as at the thought of their brilliant conversation wasted on the windswept hills of Champagne, site of the Château de Cirey, where the lovers, equipped with experimental laboratories, a darkroom, and an immense library of more than twenty-one thousand volumes, pursued their amours philosophiques. Not infrequently word of an impending arrest would send the great gadfly Voltaire scurrying across the border into Holland. Nevertheless, thanks to his irrepressible charm—and the interventions of powerful friends—he would always find his way back into the marquise's arms, and into another chapter of this supremely entertaining popular biography. € 15,20
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![]() ![]() Author: Mitford Nancy, Mansel Philip (INT) Publisher: New York Review of Books The Sun King is a dazzling double portrait of Louis XIV and Versailles, recreating the daily life of the King, his court, and his ministers during France's golden age. Nancy Mitford introduces us to the architects, artists, and gardeners tasked with transforming a modest hunting lodge into the most magnificent palace Europe had ever seen, delves into the complex and deadly court intrigues afoot in the new capital, and chronicles Louis's love affairs with a succession of mistresses including the brilliant feuding marquises of Montespan and Maintenon. Along the way we find Jean-Baptiste de Lully and his fiddlers, floating behind the King's gondola on summer nights in Versailles; Racine translating Latin aloud to his insomniac monarch; the Premier Médecin du Roi, Guy Crescent Fagon, bleeding one royal after another to death—and at the center of them all the demanding, mercurial, but remarkably resilient personality of France's sovereign for nearly three quarters of the Grand Siècle. Brimming with sumptuous detail and delicious bons mots, and written in a witty, conversational style The Sun King restores a distant glittering century to vibrant life. € 14,30
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2012 |
![]() ![]() Author: Mitford Nancy Publisher: Adelphi Uno scintillante alone di glamour e di gossip ha sempre circondato le sei celeberrime sorelle Mitford, figlie del barone Redesdale, e Nancy, la maggiore in ogni senso, ne ha trasferito sulla pagina riverberi screziati di veleno. Questa micidiale comedy of manners, ambientata tra le due guerre, mette in scena gli impossibili Montdore, di ritorno da cinque anni in India dove il conte, ricchissimo, aristocraticissimo, congenitamente stolido come i suoi degni pari, era Viceré. La consorte, di una prosaicità adamantina, neanche fosse di origini borghesi o americane, sguazza nel bel mondo. E la figlia Polly, la debuttante più concupita dai giovani blasonati che affollano i balli della stagione, decide per capriccio di farsi impalmare dallo zio, Boy Dougdale, di lei molto più vecchio e da pochi giorni vedovo, maestro nell'arte del ricamo nonché per anni amante della madre. Diseredata ipso facto, si ritira con il marito a vivere 'di stenti' in Sicilia. L'eredità passa così a uno spumeggiante cugino canadese, affermato gigolò per signori, e basteranno un paio di sue battute perché Lady Montdore, titillata nel suo organo vitale, la mondanità, si rituffi nel girone festaiolo. Dove finirà per tornare anche Polly, ormai tanto disincantata da reagire ridendo alle sue disgrazie: non per niente siamo in Arcadia, e mentre lei trova un consolatore, saranno ben altri scandali a scuotere tutta l'alta società. € 18,00
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1911 |
![]() ![]() Author: Nancy Mitford Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP € 27,10
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1910 |
![]() ![]() Author: Mitford Nancy, Mosley Charlotte (INT) Publisher: Vintage Books Nancy Mitford’s most controversial novel, unavailable for decades, is a hilarious satirical send-up of the political enthusiasms of her notorious sisters, Unity and Diana. Written in 1934, early in Hitler’s rise, Wigs on the Green lightheartedly skewers the devoted followers of British fascism. The sheltered and unworldy Eugenia Malmain is one of the richest girls in England and an ardent supporter of General Jack and his Union Jackshirts. World-weary Noel Foster and his scheming friend Jasper Aspect are in search of wealthy heiresses to marry; Lady Marjorie, disguised as a commoner, is on the run from the Duke she has just jilted at the altar; and her friend Poppy is considering whether to divorce her rich husband. When these characters converge with the colorful locals at a grandly misconceived costume pageant that turns into a brawl between Pacifists and Jackshirts, madcap farce ensues. Long suppressed by the author out of sensitivity to family feelings, Wigs on the Green can now be enjoyed by fans of Mitford’s superbly comic novels. € 14,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Mitford Nancy, Hastings Selina (INT) Publisher: Vintage Books In this delightful comedy, Fanny—the quietly observant narrator of Nancy Mitford's two most famous novels—finally takes center stage. Fanny Wincham—last seen as a young woman in The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate—has lived contentedly for years as housewife to an absent-minded Oxford don, Alfred. But her life changes overnight when her beloved Alfred is appointed English Ambassador to Paris. Soon she finds herself mixing with royalty and Rothschilds while battling her hysterical predecessor, Lady Leone, who refuses to leave the premises. When Fanny's tender-hearted secretary begins filling the embassy with rescued animals and her teenage sons run away from Eton and show up with a rock star in tow, things get entirely out of hand. Gleefully sending up the antics of mid-century high society, Don't Tell Alfred is classic Mitford. € 14,30
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