Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. With the publication of her novels, above all The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate and The Blessing, she became a huge bestseller and a household name. An inspired letter writer, she wrote almost daily to a wide variety of correspondents, among them Evelyn Waugh, Harold Action, John Betjeman, Lord Berners, Lady Seafield, and, of course, her sisters. Selina Hastings captures equally the gaiety and frivolity and the unhappy truth of Nancy Mitford's life: her failed marriage and her long, unfulfilled relationship with 'the Colonel' contrasting sharply with literary celebrity and glittering social success. Selina Hastings has written a biography that is superbly entertaining and clear-eyed, of a life that Diana Mosley spoke of as being 'so sad one can hardly bear to contemplate it'.

Nancy Mitford (Vintage Lives)

Biographies & Memoirs

Hastings, Selina

Arts & Literature

Vintage

Rosamond Lehmann

The life of Rosamond Lehmann was as romantic and harrowing as that of any of her fictional heroines. Escaping from a disastrous early marriage, Rosamond moved right into the heart of Bloomsbury society with Wogan Philipps. Later on she would embark on the most important love affair of her life, with the poet Cecil Day Lewis. Nine years later, he abandoned her for a young actress—a betrayal from which she would never recover.

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Nancy Mitford

Literature & Fiction

Hamish Hamilton

Nancy Mitford’s life was as glamorous and as dramatic as her most famous novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate. Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease, and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. With the publication of her comic novels, based in part on her eccentric family, she became a huge bestseller and household name. An inspired letter writer, she wrote almost daily to a wide variety of correspondents, among them Evelyn Waugh, Harold Acton, John Betjeman, and, of course, her famous sisters. Noted biographer Selina Hastings captures the gaiety and frivolity as well as the unhappy truth of Nancy Mitford’s life: her failed marriage and her long, unfulfilled relationship with her dashing but unfaithful French lover contrasting sharply with literary celebrity and glittering social success. Hastings has written a biography that is as superbly entertaining and clear-eyed as the unforgettable novels that are its subject’s lasting claim to fame.

History

Authorized by the English novelist's family, and drawing on his personal papers, letters, and diaries, this biography follows the author of Brideshead Revisited through his education at Oxford, his literary acclaim, and his conversion to Catholicism.

Evelyn Waugh: A Biography

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Retells the story of Gawain's quest for the Green Chapel and his puzzling encounters with Sir Bercilak and his lady.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Ancient & Medieval Literature

Methuen/Walker Books

This biography draws upon hundreds of Mitford's letters and the testimony of friends and relatives to portray the life and successful career of the renowned novelist

Nancy Mitford: 2 (A William Abrahams Book)

History & Criticism

Dutton Adult

Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady

Children's Books

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Demco Media

The Firebird

A dynamic tale, made famous by Igor Stravinsky's ballet with music, was first collected by the nineteenth-century folklorist A.N. Afanasyev. It tells how a young huntsman, finding by accident a feather of the fabulous Firebird, is instructed by the King to capture the bird itself. The task is a formidable one and the huntsman despairs; it is his horse who tells him how to accomplish the mission. But the King is not satisfied with the gift; he commands the huntsman to fetch for him the most beautiful princess in the world, then her wedding dress, which lies hidden beneath a stone at the bottom of the sea. Each of these things the huntsman does, with the help of his magic horse. Of course, the King will never be satisfied, however many of his commands are carried out and in the end the huntsman is faced with what seems to be the ultimate impossible challenge. But then, the King has not reckoned with the huntsman's horse.? Selina Hastings has retold two Arthurian legends "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady" (winner of the 1985 Kate Greenaway medal), and the traditional tales "Peter and the Wolf', "The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever", "The Singing Ringing Tree" and "Reynard the Fox", as well as a selection of stories from "The Canterbury Tales" Reg Cartwright was already a successful painter when he won the 1980 Mother Goose Award for Mr Potter's Pigeon. Since then he has produced many-picture books in partnership with his wife Ann, as well as the Walker titles PETER AND THE WOLF; THE MAN WHO WANTED TO LIVE FOR EVER; THE CANTERBURY TALES and BIRDS BEASTS AND FISHES. He lives in Leicestershire. A powerful and popular Russian fairy tale that many will know from Stravinsky's ballet; This team has produced several outstanding retellings, including THE MAN WHO WANTED TO LIVE FOR EVER.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

William Morrow & Co.

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