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Frederick the Great by Nancy Mitford
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Category: Classics
This title is presented with an Introduction by Kate Williams. Frederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become one of history's greatest rulers. He loved the flute, and devoted hours of study to the arts and French literature, forming a long-lasting b ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate (Pink Popular Penguin) by Nancy Mitford
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Category: Classics | Series: Pink Popular Penguin
Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate is a wickedly funny satire, brilliantly lampooning upper-class society. When Polly, a beautiful aristocrat, declares her love for her married, lecherous uncle - who also happens to be her mother's former lover - she sparks off a scandal that has both disastrous and ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate: Popular Penguins by Nancy Mitford
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
A sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars. Polly Hampton has long been groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, the fearsome and ambitious Lady Montdore. But Polly, with her stunning good looks and impeccable connections, i ...Show more
Second Hand Madame De Pompadour by Nancy Mitford
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Category: Classics
When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV - from that day she was groomed to become 'a morsel fit for a King'. Nancy Mitford lovingly tells the story of how the little girl rose, against a backdrop of savag ...Show more
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
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Category: Fiction
'Obsessed with sex!' said Jassy, 'there's nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I so much as look at a picture you say I'm a pygmalionist.'In the end we got far more information out of a book called Ducks and Duck Breeding.'Ducks can only copulate,' said Linda, after studying this for a while, 'in ru ...Show more
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'Obsessed with sex ' said Jassy, 'there's nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I so much as look at a picture you say I'm a pygmalionist.' In the end we got far more information out of a book called Ducks and Duck Breeding. 'Ducks can only copulate, ' said Linda, after studying this for a while, 'in ...Show more
The Sun King by Nancy Mitford
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Category: Classics
This title is presented with an Introduction by Stella Tillyyard. Louis XIV was during his reign the most powerful king in Europe. He presided over a golden age of military and artistic achievement in France, and deployed his charm and talents for spin and intrigue to hold his court and country within h ...Show more
Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford
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Category: Classics
In 1733, the lovely, intelligent, and married Marquise du Chatelet commenced her romance with one Francois-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 from th ...Show more
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