Madame de Pompadour, Paperback - Nancy Mitford

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 ...

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...

A fresh take on a beloved masterpiece of portraiture, focusing on the complex significance of the color pink in eighteenth-century FrancePublisher:...

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...

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

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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

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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...

Reducere. O poveste captivanta, cum nu s-a mai scris vreodata, despre una dintre cele mai stralucitoare perle ale Coroanei Frantei. Marchiza de Pompadour nu ...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! The definitive biography of Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in American political history, written by N...

Reducere. Guyon's theology and spiritual writing opened new doors to people from all walks of life who yearned for spiritual joy and wisdom. These new transl...

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...

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Reducere. Povestea nespusa a fermecatoarei femei care i-a furat inima celui mai mare artist al secolului XX. Cand se muta la Paris, Eva Gouel e plina de sper...

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...

One of the best-loved of all operas, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly was given its premiere at La Scala Milan in 1904, where it received a terrible rece...

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 ...

Set towards the end of the reign of Henry II of France, The Princesse de Cleves (1678) tells of the unspoken, unrequited love between the fair, nob...