Love In A Cold Climate
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Slipcase: Good. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings.
Few novels capture the glittering absurdity of English upper-class life with as much precision and wit as Love in a Cold Climate. Set in the grand country houses and London drawing rooms of the 1930s, the story follows the beautiful Polly Hampton — daughter of the formidable Lord and Lady Montdore — whose startling romantic choices send shockwaves through the rigid social world she inhabits. Narrated by the sharp-eyed Fanny Logan, the novel chronicles the collision between aristocratic expectation and individual desire with a comedic brilliance that cuts to the bone. Nancy Mitford writes with the insider authority of someone who lived among her subjects, and the result is a portrait of a society simultaneously enchanting and suffocating. Her prose is elegant yet devastating, skewering snobbery and self-delusion with a lightness of touch that disguises its deeper intelligence. A companion to The Pursuit of Love, this novel stands as one of the finest comic works of twentieth-century British literature — one that asks, with a raised eyebrow and a perfectly timed pause, just how much of ourselves we are willing to sacrifice for the approval of our class.
Author: Nancy Mitford
Format: Hardback
Published: 1995, The Folio Society
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Slipcase: Good. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings.
Few novels capture the glittering absurdity of English upper-class life with as much precision and wit as Love in a Cold Climate. Set in the grand country houses and London drawing rooms of the 1930s, the story follows the beautiful Polly Hampton — daughter of the formidable Lord and Lady Montdore — whose startling romantic choices send shockwaves through the rigid social world she inhabits. Narrated by the sharp-eyed Fanny Logan, the novel chronicles the collision between aristocratic expectation and individual desire with a comedic brilliance that cuts to the bone. Nancy Mitford writes with the insider authority of someone who lived among her subjects, and the result is a portrait of a society simultaneously enchanting and suffocating. Her prose is elegant yet devastating, skewering snobbery and self-delusion with a lightness of touch that disguises its deeper intelligence. A companion to The Pursuit of Love, this novel stands as one of the finest comic works of twentieth-century British literature — one that asks, with a raised eyebrow and a perfectly timed pause, just how much of ourselves we are willing to sacrifice for the approval of our class.