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Radlett en MontdoreReeks

Deze serie biedt een geestige en ironische kijk op een excentrieke aristocratische familie die door het turbulente 20e-eeuwse leven navigeert. Het volgt meerdere generaties door hun liefdes, verliezen en de voortdurende zoektocht naar betekenis in een snel veranderende wereld. De auteur creëert meesterlijk levendige personages en dramatische verhaallijnen met scherpe aandacht voor detail en psychologische diepgang. Lezers worden getrakteerd op een boeiend inkijkje in het leven van de Britse upper class, vol humor en ontroerende reflectie.

The Pursuit of love
Love in a cold climate
Don't tell Alfred

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    The Pursuit of love

    • 192bladzijden
    • 7 uur lezen
    4,0(13099)Tarief

    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.

    The Pursuit of love
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    Love in a cold climate

    3,9(5849)Tarief

    Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereOne of Nancy Mitford’s most beloved novels, Love in a Cold Climate is 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, is bored by the monotony of her glittering debut season in London. Having just come from India, where her father served as Viceroy, she claims to have hoped that society in a colder climate would be less obsessed with love affairs. The apparently aloof and indifferent Polly has a long-held secret, however, one that leads to the shattering of her mother’s dreams and her own disinheritance. When an elderly duke begins pursuing the disgraced Polly and a callow potential heir curries favor with her parents, nothing goes as expected, but in the end all find happiness in their own unconventional ways.

    Love in a cold climate
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