num_pages: 192
description: Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the infamous Mitford sisters. Nancy Mitford's most famous novel, The Pursuit of Love satirizes British aristocracy in the twenties and thirties through the amorous adventures of the Radletts, an exuberantly unconventional family closely modelled on Mitford's own.The Radletts of Alconleigh occupy the heights of genteel eccentricity, from terrifying Lord Alconleigh (who, like Mitford's father, used to hunt his children with bloodhounds when foxes were not available), to his gentle wife, Sadie, their wayward daughter Linda, and the other six lively Radlett children. Mitford's wickedly funny prose follows these characters through misguided marriages and dramatic love affairs, as the shadow of World War II begins to close in on their rapidly vanishing world.
language: English
title: The Pursuit of Love
titlecomplete: The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1)
characters: David Warbeck, Jassy, Matt, Robin and Vicki Radlett, Linda Radlett, Sadie Radlett, Lavender Davis, Alfred Wincham, Christian Talbot, Matthew Radlett, The Bolter, Fabrice Sauveterre, Lord Merlin, Tony Kroesig, Aunt Emily, Fanny Wincham, Louisa Radlett
genres: Fiction, Historical, British Literature, Humor, Romance, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 18634
places: Gloucestershire, England
series: Radlett and Montdore
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Premi Llibreter de narrativa
publisher: Penguin Books Limited