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| Title | : | The Pursuit of Love (Radlett and Montdore #1) |
| Author | : | Nancy Mitford |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | 1999 by Penguin Books Limited (first published 1945) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Romance. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. British Literature. Humor. Literature. 20th Century |
Nancy Mitford
Paperback | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 3.94 | 10007 Users | 948 Reviews
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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.Specify Books Supposing The Pursuit of Love (Radlett and Montdore #1)
| Original Title: | The Pursuit of Love |
| ISBN: | 0140007113 (ISBN13: 9780140007114) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.nancymitford.com/index.php/the-pursuit-of-love-1945 |
| Series: | Radlett and Montdore #1 |
| Characters: | Linda Radlett, Matthew Radlett, Fanny Wincham, Aunt Emily, David Warbeck, Lord Merlin, Sadie Radlett, Jassy, Matt, Robin and Vicki Radlett, Louisa Radlett, The Bolter, Tony Kroesig, Christian Talbot, Fabrice Sauveterre, Alfred Wincham, Lavender Davis |
| Setting: | Gloucestershire, England,1939(United Kingdom) |
| Literary Awards: | Premi Llibreter de narrativa Nominee (2006) |
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Ratings: 3.94 From 10007 Users | 948 ReviewsWrite Up Of Books The Pursuit of Love (Radlett and Montdore #1)
I cant decide if the Mitford family works better as fiction or nonfiction. If they hadnt actually existed, we would probably consider their fictional equivalents too outlandish and improbable, a too on-the-nose attempt to lampoon the aristocracy while shoehorning in some early-twentieth-century politics. But in The Pursuit of Love, just one of eldest sister Nancys novelisations of her fabulously bizarre family, little details like Uncle Matthews tendency to hunt the children are hardly tweeI really liked this novel. Behind Nancy Mitford's humor and sharp pen lies the much less glowing reality of growing up in the British aristocracy. Fanny and Linda are entering the world without much knowledge of what it means to be an adult in their social sphere. It is a novel finally deep and marked by a certain melancholy on the end.
"In the photograph Aunt Sadie's face, always beautiful, appears strangely round, her hair strangely fluffy, and her clothes strangely dowdy, but it is unmistakably she who sits there with Robin, in oceans of lace, lolling on her knee. She seems uncertain of what to do with his head, and the presence of Nanny waiting to take him away is felt though not seen."Irresistible! Such a droll tone which I found very, very funny. The parts about childhood are the best, after that the story of Julia seems
I wanted to like this novel (as it was recommended to me by a good friend), but I really didn't. It's famous, and has had movies and Broadway shows inspired by it--but I couldn't come to like it, or love it, as others do. The main character is insufferable; I think we are supposed to love her? I supposed if I could see the literary quality of the text, I would be less inclined to dislike it, that is, if I could see a particular literary quality. The main character is the type of character for
How much you like this will depend on how charmed you are by its frothy flippant tone. I'm afraid it didn't win me over. That said, there are sparks of brilliance. Especially when it focuses on the expectations of love held by young girls. The reality of men, on the whole, flattens these expectations as mercilessly as the Germans flatten London during the Blitz. The men in this book are comprehensively pretty awful. Even, reading between the lines, the ones our narrator likes. Ultimately, the
Sharp, witty, and a real eye-opener into a certain aristocratic mindset. "We were all terrible snobs in those days". And the derision of the vulgarity of a cottage with a spring-flowering garden. How common! One's home should be cold and pragmatic. Kind of hilarious.
I have had something of a Mitford addiction in the past reading many, though not all, of Nancys novels and devouring several of the many books written about this extraordinary family. The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate are of course Nancy Mitfords best known novels, and I have wanted to re-read them for some time. In this novel undoubtedly her most autobiographical novel Nancy Mitford used her famous wit to lift the lid on the absurdities of aristocratic life particularly the
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