The Blessing - Softcover

Mitford, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140012117 ISBN 13: 9780140012118

Publisher: Penguin, 1976

Synopsis

With characteristically amusing malice, Mitford blends a comedy of manners with culture shock as Grace Allingham, a naive English rose, impulsively marries Charles-Edouard de Valhubert, a French nobleman with all his class's charm and decadence. Both are duped, however, by their son Sigismund -- the Blessing of the title -- a juvenile Machiavelli who mixes Gallic cunning with Saxon thoroughness to become one of Mitford's most memorable characters.

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Review:

A refreshment to the mind and the spirit. . . . Cunningly constructed, artfully written, and divinely farcical. The New York Times Book Review
Mitford tells her story with much wit, intelligence, and polish. The Times (London)
Deliciously funny. Evelyn Waugh
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-A refreshment to the mind and the spirit. . . . Cunningly constructed, artfully written, and divinely farcical.- --The New York Times Book Review
-Mitford tells her story with much wit, intelligence, and polish.- --The Times (London)
-Deliciously funny.- ---Evelyn Waugh


"A refreshment to the mind and the spirit. . . . Cunningly constructed, artfully written, and divinely farcical." --The New York Times Book Review

"Mitford tells her story with much wit, intelligence, and polish." --The Times (London)

"Deliciously funny." ---Evelyn Waugh

About the Author:

Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born in London, the eldest child of the second Baron Redesdale. She had written four novels, including Wigs on the Green (1935), before the success of The Pursuit of Love in 1945, which she followed with Love in a Cold Climate (1949), The Blessing (1951) and Don't Tell Alfred (1960). She also wrote four works of biography. Nancy Mitford was awarded the CBE in 1972.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0140012117
• ISBN 13: 9780140012118
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224