Author Nancy Mitford transplants a group of confirmed Londoners to the Cotswolds and takes the reader for a romp through British society, both country and city, during the '20s and'30s.
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With sly, often understated wit and a true ensemble cast, I don't know why I hadn't heard of this book before. It's less arch than Mapp and Lucia, and more worldly than Jeeves. The subtle references to everything from the art world to politics to animal husbandry will keep the reader entertained to the last. An excellent find.
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This was my first Nancy Mitford book and I like her style very much. Brief and breezy, light and entertaining and yet also carrying some very thought-provoking passages. Mainly deals with relationships and the silliness of the landed gentry of England. I was laughing out loud in some public places while reading this. I think that in a subtle kind of way Bobbie is the real hero of the story. Read it and see if you agree! I will definitely read more of her books.
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There is one scene in this book that struck me as so violently funny that Christmas Pudding will retain a place in my lifetime's hall of humor. Re-reading and even remembering brings on laughter that exceeds 98% of competing satires. Yet, I say that with hesitation because I've learned often that its foolish to bet on humor. ... I am a sucker for those descriptions of the most stuffy and stupid British upperclass near phobic reactions to suspected foreign invasions and insidious socialists and Germans. This scene involves what is a suspected assasination by means of an "infernal machine." I'll say no more.There's the book- if you value that kind of pleasure/pain breakup- I hope you get it. I sure did.
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There is a certain room in the Tate Gallery which, in these unregenerate days, is used more as a passage-way towards the French pictures collected by Sir Joseph Duveen than as an objective in itself. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Bobbin, Compton Bobbin, Mulberrie Farm, Lady Maria, Major Stanworth, Lord Lewes, Captain Chadlington, Christopher Robin, Paul Fotheringay, Aunt Gloria, Crazy Capers, Elspeth Paula, Sir Roderick, Lady Brenda, Lord Leamington Spa, Michael Lewes, Aunt Loudie, Giles Stanworth, Lewes Park, Philadelphia Bobbin, Auntie Loudie, Marcella Bracket, Christmas Eve, Jerome Field, Portman Square New!
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There is a certain room in the Tate Gallery which, in these unregenerate days, is used more as a passage-way towards the French pictures collected by Sir Joseph Duveen than as an objective in itself. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Bobbin, Compton Bobbin, Mulberrie Farm, Lady Maria, Major Stanworth, Lord Lewes, Captain Chadlington, Christopher Robin, Paul Fotheringay, Aunt Gloria, Crazy Capers, Elspeth Paula, Sir Roderick, Lady Brenda, Lord Leamington Spa, Michael Lewes, Aunt Loudie, Giles Stanworth, Lewes Park, Philadelphia Bobbin, Auntie Loudie, Marcella Bracket, Christmas Eve, Jerome Field, Portman Square New!
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- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 3 by Edward Gibbon on page 65
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- The Anatomy of Melancholy (New York Review Books Classics) by Robert Burton on page 65
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon on page 65
- Julius Caesar by James Anthony Froude on page 65
- The Nature of Diamonds by George E. Harlow on page 169
- Betjeman: A Life by A. N. Wilson on page 99
- Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays by Plautus by Plautus in Back Matter
- Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford in Front Matter
- Tattoo (Thompson, Earl) by Earl Thompson in Back Matter
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