Wigs on the Green, & Highland Fling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wigs on the Green, & Highland Fling write by Nancy Mitford. This book was released on 1976. Wigs on the Green, & Highland Fling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Wigs on Th Green and Highland Fling
Wigs on Th Green and Highland Fling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wigs on Th Green and Highland Fling write by Nancy Mitford. This book was released on 1976. Wigs on Th Green and Highland Fling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Wigs on the Green
Wigs on the Green - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wigs on the Green write by Nancy Mitford. This book was released on 2010-08-10. Wigs on the Green available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nancy Mitford’s most controversial novel, unavailable for decades, is a hilarious satirical send-up of the fascist political enthusiasms of her sisters Unity and Diana, and of her notorious brother-in-law, Sir Oswald Mosley. Written in 1934, early in Hitler’s rise, Wigs on the Green lightheartedly skewers the devoted followers of British fascism. The sheltered and unworldy Eugenia Malmain is one of the richest girls in England and an ardent supporter of General Jack and his Union Jackshirts. World-weary Noel Foster and his scheming friend Jasper Aspect are in search of wealthy heiresses to marry; Lady Marjorie, disguised as a commoner, is on the run from the Duke she has just jilted at the altar; and her friend Poppy is considering whether to divorce her rich husband. When these characters converge with the colorful locals at a grandly misconceived costume pageant that turns into a brawl between Pacifists and Jackshirts, madcap farce ensues. Long suppressed by the author out of sensitivity to family feelings, Wigs on the Green can now be enjoyed by fans of Mitford’s superbly comic novels.
Highland Fling
Highland Fling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Highland Fling write by Nancy Mitford. This book was released on 2013-09-24. Highland Fling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Highland Fling—Nancy Mitford’s first novel, published in 1931—a set of completely incompatible and hilariously eccentric characters collide in a Scottish castle, where bright young things play pranks on their stodgy elders until the frothy plot climaxes in ghost sightings and a dramatic fire. Inspired in part by Mitford’s youthful infatuation with a Scottish aristocrat, her story follows young Jane Dacre to a shooting party at Dulloch Castle, where she tramps around a damp and chilly moor on a hunting expedition with formidable Lady Prague, xenophobic General Murgatroyd, one-eyed Admiral Wenceslaus, and an assortment of other ancient and gouty peers of the realm, while falling in love with Albert, a surrealist painter with a mischievous sense of humor. Lighthearted and sparkling with witty banter, Highland Fling was Mitford’s first foray into the delightful fictional world for which the author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate later became so celebrated. With an Introduction by Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey.
The Six
The Six - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Six write by Laura Thompson. This book was released on 2016-09-06. The Six available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting. The Six captures all the wayward magnetism and levity that have enchanted countless writers without neglecting the tragic darkness of many of the sisters’ life choices and the savage sociopolitical currents that fueled them.” – Tina Brown, The New York Times Book Review The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire. They were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah. Born into country-house privilege in the early years of the 20th century, they became prominent as “bright young things” in the high society of interwar London. Then, as the shadows crept over 1930s Europe, the stark—and very public—differences in their outlooks came to symbolize the political polarities of a dangerous decade. The intertwined stories of their stylish and scandalous lives—recounted in masterly fashion by Laura Thompson—hold up a revelatory mirror to upper-class English life before and after WWII. The Six was previously published as Take Six Girls.
