Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Together these hilarious novels vividly evoke the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars. Love in a Cold Climate focuses on Polly Hampton, long groomed for the perfect marriage by her fearsome mother, Lady Montdore, but secretly determined to find her own path. The Pursuit of Love follows the travails of Linda, the most beautiful and wayward Radlett daughter, who falls first for a stuffy Tory politician, then an ardent communist, and finally a French duke named Fabrice. Uncle Matthew is the blustering patriarch, known to hunt his children when foxes are scarce, Aunt Sadie is the vague but doting mother, and the seven Radlett children are recklessly eager to grow up.

We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin Fanny, visiting their Gloucestershire estate. Nancy Mitford modeled the characters in her two best-known novels on her own famously unconventional family. A hardcover omnibus of the comic masterpieces that made Nancy Mitford famous- madcap tales of growing up among the privileged and eccentric in England and finding love in all the wrong places. This is a corrected version of the EPUB from, and saved for use on Kindle. Pet Homosexual: Cedric functions as something between this and substitute-son to the Hamptons after their estrangement from Polly.Shop Barnes & Noble The Pursuit of Love Love in a Cold Climate: Introduction by Laura Thompson by Nancy Mitford online at . The Pursuit Of Love & Love In A Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford Publication date 1945 Topics Nancy Mitford, 1940's, Radletts, British Upper Class Collection opensource Language English 'The Pursuit Of Love & Love In A Cold Climate' in AZW3 format.Some of his acquaintances only learn his first name ( Harvey) at his wedding. Only Known by Their Nickname: Boy Dougdale.Likes Older Men: Both the men Polly shows any active interest in are decades older than herself.First-Person Peripheral Narrator: Fanny, as in The Pursuit Of Love.Ephebophile: Boy Dougdale, dubbed the 'Lecherous Lecturer' by the Radlett girls.

Depraved Bisexual: Downplayed with Boy Dougdale, who despite his lecherous streak, is treated as a generally non-malicious and rather comedic figure.

One of the reasons he manages to be socially successful despite the homophobia of the era.

Camp Gay: By the standards of the Genteel Interbellum Setting, Cedric is flaming.

'When ill or tired, she merely looked fragile, but never yellow, withered or diminished she was born beautiful and never, at any time when I knew her, went off or became less beautiful, but on the contrary her looks always steadily improved.'

The pursuit of love in a cold climate