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| 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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| Title | : | The Pursuit of Love (Radlett and Montdore #1) |
| Author | : | Nancy Mitford |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary 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 |
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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.Rating Regarding Books The Pursuit of Love (Radlett and Montdore #1)
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018ft1mDescription: Fanny Logan tells the story of her beloved aristocratic cousins, the Radletts, and in particular Linda, who is beautiful and loves animals. Uncle Mathew hunts his children with bloodhounds (to the horror of respectable families in the local village) and keeps a blood-spattered entrenching tool above the fireplace as a relic of his experiences in the First World War. The cousins spend much of their childhood in the airing cupboard - the onlyLast year I unwittingly read the 1949 sequel, Love in a Cold Climate, first. I rather enjoyed that one, but somehow wasnt in the mood for Mitford this time around, and ended up just skimming this one. Once again Fanny traces the love life of one of her posh cousins. This time its Linda Radlett, whose two marriages to a Conservative and a Communist are doomed to failure. Then she finds her true love, too late. I liked the ball scene, and the image of Uncle Matthew using his bloodhounds to hunt
Life, she thought, is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake and here is one of them.The early morning sun shone past her window on to the river, her ceiling danced with water-reflections. The Sunday silence was broken by two swans winging slowly upstream, and then by the chugging of a little barge, while she waited for that other sound, a sound more intimately connected with the urban love affair than any except the telephone bell, that of a stopping taxicab. Sun,
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
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 recall going through a bit of a Mitford sisters stage when I was a teenager, although I think that involved reading things about them rather than reading things by them. That said, I know that I read Love in a Cold Climate when I was about fifteen, although I remember absolutely nothing about the book. It was, therefore, a bit of a surprise to realise that this novel is the first in a trilogy of which Love in a Cold Climate is the second book. This is the story of the intensely romantic Linda
Really quite wonderful. I had no idea what to expect from Nancy Mitford, knowing that people are divided over her type of comedy. Luckily it was exactly the sort of comedy that I like, and I found my first experience with her fabulous and so incredibly funny. I also unknowingly read this first without realizing that it's the first in a series of stories about the same characters - I cannot wait to read 'Love in a Cold Climate.'
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