Modern Classics The Letters Of Nancy Mitford And Evelyn Waugh

Author : Nancy Mitford
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0141193921
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Classics the Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh written by Nancy Mitford and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were two of the twentieth century's most amusing and gifted writers, who matched wits and traded literary advice in more than five hundred letters over twenty-two years. Dissecting their friends, criticizing each other's books and concealing their true feelings beneath a barrage of hilarious and knowing repartee, they found it far easier to conduct a friendship on paper than in person. This correspondence provides a colourful glimpse into the literary and social circles of London and Paris, during the Second World War and for twenty years after.

Author : Charlotte Mosley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340638057
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh written by Charlotte Mosley and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writers Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were great friends, and their friendship gave rise to the 500 letters full of malicious jokes and social gossip, presented in this collection.

Author : Nancy Mitford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love from Nancy written by Nancy Mitford and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Mitford died in 1973 before she could write an autobiography. But she was one of the great letter writers of this century, and her sparkling correspondence to her famous family and to a wide circle of brilliant friends - Evelyn Waugh, Harold Acton, Robert Byron, Cyril Connolly, and Raymond Mortimer, among many others - sheds an extraordinary light on their lives and the times in which they lived. Novelist, biographer, and journalist, Nancy was born in 1904 into a family that seemed always to he in Britain's headlines - and not only on the society pages. The eldest of Lord and Lady Redesdale's seven talented children (writer Jessica Mitford among them), Nancy immortalized their family life in her first bestseller, The Pursuit of Love. Her natural wit, fed by the frivolous 1920s, was undimmed by her political coming of age in the 1930s, or the courage and stoicism of wartime London. At war's end she moved to Paris, and her home there became "a congenial rendezvous of French and English letters", in the words of her friend Harold Acton. From this perch, Nancy wrote her daily correspondence, delighting in her adopted country and skewering pretension wherever she found it. Wildly funny and filled with outrageous gossip, Mitford's letters detail not only the foolishness and foibles of London and Parisian society, but also the more tragic story of an unhappy marriage and her often anguished affair with "the Colonel", a leading member of de Gaulle's government. Love from Nancy is the first published collection of Nancy's correspondence. It draws on eight thousand letters spanning six decades, many dashed off with hardly a crossed-out word, all so full of verve that the writer seems to beat one's elbow. It includes an important selection of letters to Evelyn Waugh, her close friend and literary mentor. Whether asking Waugh what Roman Catholics believe awaits them in heaven or soliciting Field Marshal Montgomery's opinion of the latest Paris fashions, these letters give us Nancy Mitford at her provocative and teasing best.

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Evelyn Waugh written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1980 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charlotte Mosley
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007369174
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters written by Charlotte Mosley and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carefree, revelatory and intimate, this selection of unpublished letters between the six legendary Mitford sisters, compiled by Diana Mitford’s daughter-in-law, is alive with wit, passion and heartbreak.

Author : Henry Eliot
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241441617
Total Pages : 2282 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Modern Classics Book written by Henry Eliot and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 2282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers. This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and 600 authors, from Achebe and Adonis to Zamyatin and Zweig. It is the essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book. Bursting with lively descriptions, surprising reading lists, key literary movements and over two thousand cover images, The Penguin Modern Classics Book is an invitation to dive in and explore the greatest literature of the last hundred years.

Author : Naomi Milthorpe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611478758
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evelyn Waugh’s Satire written by Naomi Milthorpe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) is one of the twentieth century’s great prose stylists and the author of a suite of devastating satires on modern English life, from his first unforgettably funny novel Decline and Fall, to his last work of fiction, “Basil Seal Rides Again.” Evelyn Waugh’s Satire: Texts and Contexts renews scholarly debates central to Waugh’s work: the forms of his satire, his attitudes towards modernity and modernism, his place in the literary culture of the interwar period, and his pugnacious (mis)reading of literary and other texts. This study offers new exegetical accounts of the forms and figures of Waugh’s satire, linking original readings of Waugh’s texts to the literary-historical contexts that informed them. Posing fresh readings of familiar works and affording attention to more neglected texts, Evelyn Waugh’s Satire: Texts and Contexts offers readers and scholars a timely opportunity to return to the rich, dark art of this master of prose satire.

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Phoenix
ISBN 13 : 9780753827376
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Evelyn Waugh written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evelyn Waugh was the last of the great letter-writers, and his witty, elegant correspondence to a wide circle of friends contains more than a touch of malice. In the 1920s Waugh wrote to a schoolfriend about his undergraduate escapades at Oxford and the Harold Acton and Henry Green of his unhappy jobs, his literary plans and the break-up of his first marriage. In the 1930s his boisterous letters recount his successes, social life and travels in South America. During the war, writing to his second wife, Laura Herbert, he revealed the strength of his love for her more vividly than has appeared elsewhere. He was inspired by Ann Fleming, Lady Diana Cooper and Nancy Mitford. Politics are rarely mentioned and he discusses writing only with someone he recognises as an equal, like Graham Greene. His deeply felt religious beliefs are expressed to John Betjeman. But Waugh's main concern is to amuse - and in this he is triumphantly successful.

Author : Bradley W. Hart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472569970
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Pitt-Rivers and the Nazis written by Bradley W. Hart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Pitt-Rivers began his career as one of Britain's most promising young anthropologists, conducting research in the South Pacific and publishing articles in the country's leading academic journals. With a museum in Oxford bearing his family name, Pitt-Rivers appeared to be on track for a sterling academic career that might even have matched that of his grandfather, one of the most prominent archaeologists of his day. By the early 1930s, however, Pitt-Rivers had turned from his academic work to politics. Writing a series of books attacking international communism and praising the ideas of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, Pitt-Rivers fell into the circles of the anti-Semitic far right. In 1937 he attended the Nuremberg Rally and personally met Adolf Hitler and other leading Nazis. With the outbreak of war in 1940 Pitt-Rivers was arrested and interned by the British government on the suspicion that he might harm the war effort by publicly sharing his views, effectively ending his academic career. This book traces the remarkable career of a man who might have been remembered as one of Britain's leading 20th century anthropologists but instead became involved in a far-right milieu that would result in his professional ruin and the relegation of most of his research to margins of scientific history. At the same time, his wider legacy would persist far beyond the academic sphere and can be found to the present day.

Author : Nancy Mitford
Publisher : Fig Tree
ISBN 13 : 9780241239476
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Novels written by Nancy Mitford and published by Fig Tree. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Penguin Complete Novels of Nancy Mitford. Here in one volume are all eight of Nancy Mitford's sparklingly astute, hilarious and completely unputdownable novels: Highland Fling, Christmas Pudding, Wigs on the Green, Pigeon Pie, The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate, The Blessing and Don't Tell Alfred. Published over a period of 30 years, they provide a wonderful glimpse of the bright young things of the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties in the city and in the shires; firmly ensconced at home or making a go of it abroad; and what the upper classes really got up to in peace and in war. 'Entirely original, inimitable and irresistible' Spectator 'Deliciously funny' Evelyn Waugh 'Utter, utter bliss' Daily Mail