Love ​in a Cold Climate (Radlett & Montdore 2.) 4 csillagozás

Nancy Mitford: Love in a Cold Climate Nancy Mitford: Love in a Cold Climate Nancy Mitford: Love in a Cold Climate Nancy Mitford: Love in a Cold Climate Nancy Mitford: Love in a Cold Climate

In one of the wittiest novels of them all, Nancy Mitford casts a finely gauged net to capture perfectly the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season, the story of coldly beautiful Polly Hampton and her aristocratic parents is is a comedy of English manners between the wars by one of the most individual, beguiling and creative users of the language.

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Penguin, London, 2010
256 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780141043999
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Random House, New York, 2010
246 oldal · ISBN: 9780307740823

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Nancy Mitford: Love in a Cold Climate

Nemreg neztem egy videót angol ifjúsagi regenykről, es ez is benne volt, en meg sosem hallottam róla, szóval adta magat, hogy 900 forintert elorozzam a Bookstationből. Aztan persze gyorsan rajöttem, hogy ez egy sorozat masodik resze, es kicsit aggódtam, hogy lesz-e így egyaltalan ertelme elolvasni, de azt hiszem, elő es utótörtenet nelkül is teljesen befogadható volt a regeny.
Aki hozzam hasonlóan felig nevetve, felig kívancsisaggal viseltetik a XX. szazadi angol arisztokracia iranyaban, az nagyon fogja ezt elvezni, azt meg főleg, ha kicsit utanaolvas a Mitford nőverek eletenek (nem semmi. tenyleg nem semmi. mar wishlisten a róluk írt biografia is).


Népszerű idézetek

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Love indeed – whoever invented love ought to be shot.

97. oldal

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'I wonder why it is that all girls suppose the married state to be one of perfect happiness? Is it just clever old Dame Nature's way of hurrying them into the trap?'

138. oldal

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[…] I kept it to myself because I knew that nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love.

66. oldal

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[…] because I knew that, once I found myself in the dining-room seated between two of the old gentlemen downstairs, it would no longer be possible to remain a silent spectator, I should be obliged to try and think of things to say. It had been drummed into me all my life, especially by Davey, that silence at meal times is anti-social.
'So long as you chatter, Fanny, it's of no consequence what you say, better recite out of the ABC than sit like a deaf mute. Think of your poor hostess, it simply isn't fair on her.'

36. oldal

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Enhanced by this dress, and by a little make-up, Polly's beauty was greatly remarked upon, especially by those of a former generation, who were all saying that since Lady Helen Vincent, since Lily Langtry, since the Wyndham sisters (according to taste), nothing so perfect had been seen in London. Her own contemporaries, however, were not so greatly excited by her. They admitted her beauty but said that she was dull, too large.

79. oldal

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Back in the Long Gallery some of the women went upstairs to 'powder their noses'. Lady Montdore was scornful.
'I go in the morning,' she said, 'and that is it. I don't have to be let out like a dog at intervals, thank goodness – there's nothing so common, to my mind.'

42. oldal

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There was a dinner party of forty people with a very grand Sir and Ma'am indeed, on account of whom everybody was punctual to the minute, so that all the guests arrived simultaneously and the large crowd in Park Lane was rewarded by good long stares into the queueing motor cars.

80. oldal

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On the opposite wall was the Montdore Botticelli which Uncle Matthew said he wouldn't give 7s. 6d. for, and when Davey showed him a Leonardo drawing he said his fingers only itched for an india-rubber.

82. oldal

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'(..) Your mother's ideas on placement get vaguer and vaguer. The table last night was totally mad, the duchess is still in a temper about it! Sonia really shouldn't have people at all if she doesn't intend to treat them properly.'
A phrase I had often heard on the lips of my Aunt Emily, with reference to animals.

63. oldal

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Quite useless to discuss questions of age with old people, they have such peculiar ideas on the subject. 'Not really old at all, only seventy,' you hear them saying, or 'quite young, younger than me, not much more than forty'.

65. oldal


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