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The pursuit of love / a novel by Nancy Mitford.
Van Pelt Library PR6025.I88 P8 1946
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitford, Nancy, 1904-1973.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Upper class--Fiction.
- Upper class.
- England.
- Country life--Fiction.
- Country life.
- England--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Romance fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 247 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, 1946.
- Summary:
- The Pursuit of Love is a classic comedy about growing up and falling in love among the privileged and eccentric. Mitford modeled her characters on her own famously unconventional family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin Fanny, who stays with them at Alconleigh, their Gloucestershire estate. Uncle Matthew is the blustering patriarch, known to hunt his children when foxes are scarce; Aunt Sadie is the vague but doting mother; and the seven Radlett children, despite the delights of their unusual childhood, are recklessly eager to grow up. The first of three novels featuring these characters, The Pursuit of Love follows the travails of Linda, the most beautiful and wayward Radlett daughter, who falls first for a stuffy Tory politician, then an ardent Communist, and finally a French duke named Fabrice.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Nichols fund bookplate.
- OCLC:
- 1803271
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