Hons and Rebels: The Mitford Family Memoir - Jessica Mitford

Reducere. 'Whenever I read the words "Peer's Daughter" in a headline, ' Lady Redesdale once sadly remarked, 'I know it's going to be something about one of y...

New on the Indigo list. This biography is reissued with a new jacket design. "More than an extremely amusing biography... she has evoked a whole ge...

Reducere. In the third book in the Mitford Murders series, lady's maid Louisa Cannon accompanies Diana Mitford into a turbulent late 1920s Europe. The year i...

The latest novel in the bestselling Mitford Murders series is inspired by real events and is perfect reading for Agatha Christie fans dying for a n...

The fourth book in the hit The Mitford Murders series by international bestseller Jessica Fellowes sees trouble follow Unity Mitford into the famil...

The third book in the hit The Mitford Murders series sees maid Louisa Cannon accompany Diana Mitford in turbulent late 1920s Europe, where everythi...

Reducere. "A real murder, a real family and a brand new crime fiction heroine are woven together to make a fascinating, and highly enjoyable, read. I loved i...

Publisher: Little, BrownAuthor(s): Jessica FellowesPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 232 x 34Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lectur...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The Mitfords had style and presence and were mercilessly gifted. Above all, they were funny--hilariously and mercilessly so. In this wise, evenhand...

Jessica Mitford was a member of one of England's most legendary families (among her sisters were the novelist Nancy Mitford and the current Duchess...

In this first of a series following each of the Mitford sisters through the investigation of a different murder, the real-life murder of Florence N...

Covers correspondence of more than 22 years between two of the 20th century's most amusing and gifted writers, and provides a colourful glimpse int...

Reissue. Mitford was a witty, intelligent and often acerbic observer of upper-class English idiosyncracies. She was also an inveterate writer of le...

Nancy's sisters Unity and Diana were furious with her for making fun of Diana's husband, Oswald Moseley, and his politics, and the book caused a ri...

During his reign Louis XIV was the most powerful king in Europe. He presided over a golden age of military and artistic achievement in France, and ...

One of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written, Nancy Mitford's classic is now a major BBC and Prime Video series dire...

The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Emilie du Chatelet, ...

Pamela is perhaps the least known of the Mitford sisters, yet she was involved with all the activities of her extraordinary family, including the i...

The revealing biography of an extraordinary family, based on exclusive access to the Mitford archives, which is just as sensational as any work of ...

It isn't just Nanny who finds it difficult in France when Grace and her young son Sigi are finally able to join her dashing aristocratic husband Ch...

'A masterpiece ... The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest books ever written' India Knight, The TimesNancy Mitford's brilliantly witty, irrever...

When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV - from ...

The first book to provide an answer to how the perennially popular Mitford girls would cope with modern lifeIllustrations: 8 Plates, black and whit...

Reducere. "A story of honor and bloody revenge." The legend of the 47 ronin is one of the most popular and best known stories about the samurai in Japan. It ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) remains unique in the annals of modern history. For the first time in the modern era, war was deli...

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Publisher: EverymanAuthor(s): Nancy MitfordNumber of pages: 488Collection: Everyman's Library CLASSICSPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 210 x 137 x...

Reducere. DescriptionIn a 'History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind' ex-South African banker Stephen Goodson explains how the Central Bankin...

Reducere. "A story of honor and bloody revenge." The legend of the 47 ronin is one of the most popular and best known stories about the samurai in Japan. It ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A biography of the most brilliant of the Mitford sisters, who dazzled and scandalised interwar high society with their wit and sometimes controvers...

Reducere. Stephen Mitford Goodson's Inside the South African Reserve Bank Its Origins and Secrets Exposed sweeps aside the usual dust of economic theory to p...

The compelling love story of two extraordinary individuals - Nancy Mitford and Free French commander Gaston Palewski - living in extraordinary time...

Captures the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season, this is a...

Reducere. When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather...

Reducere. "The Bookseller's Secret is a delight from start to finish, a literary feast any booklover will savor!"--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling aut...

Reducere. "The Bookseller's Secret is a delight from start to finish. Michelle Gable skillfully twines the narratives of two effervescent heroines, a modern-...

Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written. 'Obsessed with sex!' said Jassy...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Eliza KnightNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 201 x 28Cover type: Paper...

Reducere. It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable. Y...

Reducere. In late-eighteenth-century India, the glory of the Mughal emperors was fading, and ambitious newcomers seized power, changing the political map for...

Reducere. I he most authoritative history of piracy, Frank Sherry's rich and colorful account reveals the rise and fall of the real "raiders and rebels" who ...

Reducere. The story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British generals and their rigidly disciplined red-coated tro...

Reducere. DescriptionGeneral Jan Christian Smuts (1870-1950) was an heroic icon for many. But over the decades, he was regarded in another light. For Afrikan...

Love in a Cold Climate is the sequel to Nancy Mitford's bestselling novel The Pursuit of Love. 'How lovely - green velvet and silver. I call that a...

The only memoirs written by a close friend of the Duchess of Windsor, expanded with an interview with the author - Diana Mitford, Lady Mosley, the ...

Reducere. DescriptionFifty years ago Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith and the Rhodesian Front party declared independence from Great Britain unilaterally. A ...