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Few aristocratic English families of the 20th century have enjoyed quite the delicious notoriety that the Mitford sisters courted in the years bracketed by two world wars. For a start, two of the girls, Unity and Diana, were Fascists (the former was a friend of Hitler and Goebbels, and the latter married Sir Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists). Two others took the writing route: Jessica ran away from home and became a famous muckraking journalist, and Nancy composed maliciously witty--and transparently autobiographical--novels as well as several biographies. The Pursuit of Love (1945), her greatest fictional success, and its companion, Love in a Cold Climate (1949), keep closely to the spirit (and details) of their youthful amusements and more grown-up adventures.
Seen through the adoring eyes of Fanny Logan, the self-effacing cousin who records their shenanigans with a wicked sincerity, the Radletts of Alconleigh shine with Gloucestershire glamour: apoplectic Uncle Matthew; Lord Alconleigh (modeled to a fine nuance after Mitford's father, Lord Redesdale, who like Uncle Matthew used to hunt his children with bloodhounds); his kind, rather vague wife, Aunt Sadie; as well as Fanny's favorite cousin Linda and the other six Radlett children. The Radlett daughters and Fanny wait impatiently for life to become interesting. Because of their station, however, nothing but marriage is expected of them, so they hurl themselves at love like crusaders, with varied and always fascinating results. At one point Fanny recounts:
A few minutes only after Linda had left me to go back to London, Christian and the comrades, I had another caller. This time it was Lord Merlin...."This is a bad business," he said, abruptly, and without preamble, though I had not seen him for several years. "I'm just back from Rome, and what do I find--Linda and Christian Talbot. It's an extraordinary thing that I can't ever leave England without Linda getting herself mixed up with some thoroughly undesirable character. This is a disaster--how far has it gone? Can nothing be done?"
The Pursuit of Love follows the romantic fortunes of Linda Radlett, while Love in a Cold Climate ventures further afield with the story of Polly Hampton's shocking love affair and its unexpectedly funny aftermath. Fanny's inexhaustible narration is a pleasant buffer for Mitford's deft teasing, which dances along just this side of mockery. The author of U and Non-U, a famous tongue-in-cheek treatise on the shibboleths of upper-class mores, Mitford often leaves the reader wondering just where she stands in the class wars, and much of her humor arises in the fine distinctions of aristocratic manners and speech. Still, there's an inimitable tart sweetness to these stories of true love and its pallid imitators, making them perfect snapshots of a vanished world. --Barrie Trinkle
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Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the infamous Mitford sisters. Nancy Mitford's most famous novels,
The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, satirize 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.
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Interesting Read........2007-06-17
I knew nothing of these two novels until just a few short days ago when I fell for the charms of Nancy Mitford. It was really interesting to learn that both The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate are semi-autobiographical.
Both novels were a classic read. Maybe they were a little boring in parts, but then so is life at times. Anyway, I am a huge sucker for love stories, and that's exactly what these were. I absolutely love how Ms. Mitford shows the two different sides of the narrator, Fanny in each novel. It definitely makes the entire book much more heart warming.
Overall, it was a challenging, and interesting read. (I even had to consult my dictionary several times for new and interesting words.)
funny, charming and touching.......2007-02-23
Mitford has a deft touch with comedy, romance and pathos. Her scenes of an eccentric upper-class British family are delightful (and she obviously knows this subject). Worth reading on its own, and especially if you are interested in the amazing Mitford sisters.
Love in an Ambivalent Climate.......2006-09-05
England between first and second world wars: few girls were as famous as the Mitfords, five beautiful daughters of a well-known upper class "county family" as the British would call them. Nancy, writer of the family, knew her debutante balls well. In fact, she later came up with a way to define English social class by defining speech as "U"for upper class; and "non-U" for those who weren't.
The Mitford girls were "brought up to marry,not fall in love,"Nancy once wrote. Unfortunately, of the actual Mitford girls, only one did as she was expected to do. Deborah (Debo) married the eleventh Duke of Devonsheer. Unity, however, hung around Germany, striking up warmer friendships with the Nazis, and expressing herself more forcefully in their support, than suited the British public. Diana went and married Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British fascists, who was "detained" for WWII. Jessica ran off to Hollywood, no less, took American citizenship, and wrote the whistle-blowing "The American Way of Death,"a very inflential indictment of the funeral business. Nancy did marry an "Honorable," but then she turned around and published "The Pursuit of Love," and "Love in a Cold Climate,"two novels that pretty well blew the whistle on society, and on the Mitfords.
For everyone agrees that the central family of these novels, the Radletts, are the Mitfords to the life. Eccentric, choleric father; vague amiable mother; clamorous, animal-loving, quicksilver charming children. The action is narrated by a cousin who seems to resemble Nancy Mitford, and she seems to get most of the action too. As heroine of "In Pursuit of Love" she seems to have pursued love in most of the same places her creator did, though she knew what was expected of her.
How could she not? At one point, a powerful peeress advises Fanny, the narrator,"'Don't you go marrying anybody, for love. Remember that love cannot last; it never, never does; but if you marry all this it's for your life. One day, don't forget,you'll be middle-aged and think what that must be like for a woman who can't have, say, a pair of diamond earrings. A woman of my age needs diamonds near her face, to give a sparkle. Then at mealtimes, sitting with all the unimportant people for ever and ever. And no car. Not a very nice prospect,you know.'"
But Fanny, our narrator, hardly seems to need warning. She remarks at one point,"'always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry,'" is an aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.'"
On a deeper level, however, Fanny seems to reflect her creator's ambivalence on whether to marry for love, or "all this." But there's still substantial ambivalence on that question.
These novels are undeniably bright and charming, and they seem to pick up right where tv's "Upstairs Downstairs" left off. Not to mention Evelyn Waugh's "Bright Young Things,"and "Brideshead revisited". If you liked them, you'll love this.
Light and entertaining read.......2006-06-05
I bought this book after I became acquainted with Mitford sisters through a biography I have read.
After reading the biography, the first novel, "Pursuit of Love" seemed very familiar to me because in some parts it is almost a narration of the Mitford history. Some characters are given a different history but it is easy to recognize Jessica or Nancy herself.
I wouldn't go so far as to call these novels masterpieces but they are very witty and enjoyable. Especially if you are an Anglophile like me, you will most certainly enjoy this humorous depiction of upper class society in England.
Both novels are narrated by Fanny, cousin/friend to the heroines of the novels. "Pursuit of Love" is about Linda's love affairs and "Love in a Cold Climate" is about Polly's scandalous marriage. Both novels contain very enjoyable side characters like the bellowing Uncle Matthew, the health-conscious Uncle Davey and the lovable sissy Cedric Hampton. In fact the leading ladies are not explored so well as these characters. In the case of Polly we know very little about what goes in her mind.
I must also note that these novels are more about characters than plots. Nancy Mitford writes along about the characters and when there is nothing more to say, she abruptly ends the novels. Besides if you haven't read them one after the other, some of the points Fanny makes will be quite irrelevant as in the case of Fanny's meeting Fabrice in "Love in a Cold Climate" and mentioning that she will be adopting his son years later. First novel's heroine Linda is just a distant character in the second novel but the other, funnier characters appear in both novels.
All in all an enjoyable read but do not expect a literary masterpiece.
Both are fantastic.......2006-04-18
I had read Love in a Cold Climate years ago, but hadn't read The Pursuit of Love. They are both hilarious.
The Pursuit of Love is the stronger book, but Love in a Cold Climate I found more amusing. I believe these were written in the 1930s, so the style and language can seem a little dated at times, but quaintly so. If you know anything about the British Upper Class, they are satirically hilarious.
Enjoy.
As other reviews more than adequately cover the two novels, my review gives you some background on the author and the circumstances that shaped her.
Love in a Cold Climate is loosely based on Mitford's own family. Famous or infamous depending on your point of view, their father did march them around the house. As a matter of interest two of the sisters were facists Unity shot herself, Diana married Oswald Moseley. Another Decca (Jessica) wrote for articles and books including "The American Way of Dying" and Nancy is the author of numerous books, including these. Sister Debo (Deborah) is the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire.
The Mitfords were a wonderfully eccentric minor aristocratic family. Nancy Mitford wrote the famous "Noblesse Oblige" about U and non-U in 1956. It is a glimpse into how the British could instantly tell if someone is truly an aristocratic/upper class or a pretender. Upper Classes would, and often still do, say lavatory and not toilet, rich and not wealthy, spectacles and not glasses, looking glass and not mirror, drawing room and not living room or lounge and so forth. Amazing, but true!
Understanding these codes, may help you understand the books and nuances a little better. Nancy Mitford has considerable insight and sends up her own class relentlessly.
If you want another great book with charming and hilarious antics of a young female relative forced to live with rustic eccentrics in 1930s England, read Stella Gibbons "Cold Comfort Farm". A true gem.
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- A spicy treasure enhanced by audio.
- Nothing romantic about this brutish and abusive leading man
- Yuck! I was bored silly!
- It was not a sweet love story!!!!
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A Treasure Worth Seeking
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A spicy treasure enhanced by audio........2006-03-12
Veteran narrator Joyce Bean spices A TREASURE WORTH SEEKING: a thought-provoking audio story of Erin, who has searched for the brother she'd never known and at last finds some clues to his whereabouts - only to find herself confronting family lies, secrets, and even new romance. Her love and discoveries about her family will shake her world and change her life in a moving romance which comes alive in audio under Bean's practiced voice.
Nothing romantic about this brutish and abusive leading man.......2005-10-18
This was an excellent suspense story about a missing person and bank embezzelment. I was spellbound to learn what happened to Ken and the money. The friendship that developed between Ken's wife Melanie and his long-lost sister Erin was very endearing, as they comforted and supported each other through the crisis. These storylines should have been better developed as the main focus of the story.
However, as a romance novel, there was nothing romantic at all about the male protagonist. Upon first encountering Erin, Lance treated her with such brute force that it crossed the line into to abuse of his power as a law enforcement official. The way he interrogated her, spoke down to her, searched her personal property without a warrant, physically man-handled her, and held her against her will was surely a violation of her civil rights (I kept wondering why she didn't insist on having a lawyer or other advocate present.) He also forced himself upon her in more intimate ways, in almost rapist fashion. I was repulsed to read about Erin's physical attraction to him in spite of his abusive man-handling of her. Yes, Lance did have moments of tenderness in the second half of the novel, alternating with obnoxious behavior, but it was impossible to imagine that Erin would even consider entering into a relationship with him, regardless of how sexy and attractive he was. Yuck!
Yuck! I was bored silly! .......2005-08-25
This storyline was really lame! I can't even say anything good about the characters because they were all really annoying! I am a huge Sandra Brown fan, but this one is one I wish I had skipped!
It was not a sweet love story!!!!.......2004-07-16
First off what man in their right mind kiss someone only minutes after you meet them, oh wait what am I talking about? Besides that further into the story Erin needs help zipping up her dress and of course Lance is the only one around to help her. He does more then zip up her dress he fondles and gropes her and then comes to his senses and helps her with her dress.
He knew pretty much from the beginning that she wasnt helping her long lost brother with the robbery yet he keeps her around to mess with her sexually.
The end of the book was even worse. Lance comes to see her at her office and she doesnt even bother to tell him she is pregnant with his child. Then of course some who they live happily ever after. blah blah blah
dont waste your time
Not too bad..........2003-07-07
A Treasure Worth Seeking finds it's way into the category of pretty good. Not every book can be the best, and as usual, people tend to forget that. This was one of Sandra Brown's books that was written before she became popular and was written under a pen name. Of course she has improved over time. That happens with everyone. It's the old practice makes perfect line.
This book was a good read. It's not anything heavy and it's not a book that's going to keep you up all night. It's only 256 pages long and the print is pretty large. This is a great book for a plane ride or while sitting on the beach. Sometimes you want to read something that's nice and light, and this book suits that.
Take the time and read this one. I don't think anyone will be really disappointed. I know I wasn't.
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Sandra Brown CD Collection 2: A Treasure Worth Seeking, Shadows of Yesterday, Prime Time
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After years of searching for the brother she'd never known, Erin O'Shea had finally found his San Francisco address. But she was unaware that she was about to walk into a shocking drama of family lies - and to meet an intriguing, infuriating man who would change her life. Lance was a G-man who never dreamed that his feelings would drive him to break every rule in the book - and put his career and even Erin's future on the line.
Shadows of Yesterday:
Leigh Bransom had lost her husband eight months before when he was tragically killed on the job. Now a fateful meeting on a lonesome highway brought a new man into her life - one with secrets and the power to make her lonely once again. Chad Dillon was determined to make Leigh care for him, but there were no guarantees that his love could protect her from the very thing she feared most.
Prime Time:
More than anything else, cable TV reporter Andrea Malone wanted a network job. And it could be hers if she gained a coveted interview with the aging General Ratiff. One obstacle was Lyon Ratiff, the general's watchdog of a son. Andrea had a plan, but had no way of knowing she would have to choose between the ruthless demands of her profession and the equally strong dictates of the heart.
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God's Treasure Chest Adult Resource Book: Treasure Worth Seeking
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HIDDEN FIRES--In a Texas of cattle and railroads, family dynasties and ambitious schemers, Sandra Brown's classic historical romance brings readers a riveting story.A TREASURE WORTH SEEKING--After years of searching for the brother she'd never known, Erin O'Shea had found his San Francisco address and stood on the doorstep--not knowing she was about to walk into a heart-wrenching drama of shocking family ties and lies.ABOVE AND BEYOND 1986--Tall, brawny, magnificent--with a black eye patch and sight limp that only added to his overwhelming masculinity--Trevor Rule might be the one man who could make Kyla Stroud forget her husband's death in the embassy bombing.
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“Powerful . . . A combustible mixture of science and mysticism, a high-altitude
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In a breathless thriller that explores the relationship between science and the divine, good and evil, space and time, Jane Jensen takes us from the world we know into a reality we could only scarcely imagine. Until now.
Rabbi Aharon Handalman’s expertise with Torah code–rearranging words and letters in the Bible–has uncovered a man’s name. Who is Yosef Kobinski, and why did God hide his name in His sacred text? To find the answers, Aharon begins an investigation, and discovers that Kobinski, a Polish rabbi, was not only a mystic but also a brilliant physicist who authored what may be the most important lost work in human history.
In Seattle, Jill Talcott’s work with energy wave equations is being linked to Yosef Kobinski, now deceased, who claimed nearly fifty years ago that he discovered an actual physical law of good and evil. But when Jill’s lab explodes, she is forced to flee for her life, realizing that her cutting-edge research is far more dangerous than she ever has imagined. And that powerful people have a stake in what she may have uncovered.
Now Jill, her research partner, and a writer fascinated by Kobinski are about to meet Handalman in Poland–all four desperate to solve the astonishing riddle. Searching through the past, they trace Kobinski to a clearing in the woods near Auschwitz. And in that clearing they come face-to-face with the inexplicable: that Kobinski, drawing on his own alchemy of science and the Kabbalah, made himself vanish from the death camp in a blaze of fire. Now, with intelligence agents hot on their trail, the investigators have no choice. They must follow Kobinski –to wherever he may have gone. . . .
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In a breathless thriller that explores the relationship between science and the divine, good and evil, space and time, Jane Jensen takes us from the world we know into a reality we could only scarcely imagine. Until now.
Rabbi Aharon Handalman's expertise with Torah code -- rearranging words and letters in the Bible -- has uncovered a man's name. Who is Yosef Kobinski, and why did God hide his name in His sacred text? To find the answers, Aharon begins an investigation, and discovers that Kobinski, a Polish rabbi, was not only a mystic but also a brilliant physicist who authored what may be the most important lost work in human history.
In Seattle, Jill Talcott's work with energy wave equations is being linked to Yosef Kobinski, now deceased, who claimed nearly fifty years ago that he discovered an actual physical law of good and evil. But when Jill's lab explodes, she is forced to flee for her life, realizing that her cutting-edge research is far more dangerous than she ever has imagined. And that powerful people have a stake in what she may have uncovered.
Now Jill, her research partner, and a writer fascinated by Kobinski are about to meet Handalman in Poland -- all four desperate to solve the astonishing riddle. Searching through the past, they trace Kobinski to a clearing in the woods near Auschwitz. And in that clearing they come face-to-face with the inexplicable: that Kobinski, drawing on his own alchemy of science and the Kabbalah, made himself vanish from the death camp in a blaze of fire. Now, with intelligence agents hot on their trail, the investigators have no choice. They must follow Kobinski -- to wherever he may have gone....
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Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems: An Introduction for Engineers and Scientists
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Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems examines fundamental concepts necessary to engineers and scientists working with discrete signal processing and inverse problem solving, and places emphasis on the clear understanding of algorithms within the context of application needs.
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Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems examines fundamental concepts necessary to engineers and scientists working with discrete signal processing and inverse problem solving, and places emphasis on the clear understanding of algorithms within the context of application needs. Based on the original Introduction to Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems in Civil Engineering, this expanded and enriched version: combines discrete signal processing and inverse problem solving in one book covers the most versatile tools that are needed to process engineering and scientific data presents step-by-step implementation procedures for the most relevant algorithms provides instructive figures, solved examples and insightful exercises Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems is essential reading for experimental researchers and practicing engineers in civil, mechanical and electrical engineering, non-destructive testing and instrumentation. This book is also an excellent reference for advanced undergraduate students and graduate students in engineering and science.
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- Un toque de Misterio con Ciencia Ficcion!
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La Ecuacion Dante / Dante's Equation
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Un toque de Misterio con Ciencia Ficcion!.......2007-06-20
El libro tiene dos partes: la primera trata de la investigacion que llevan a cabo la Dr. Talcott y su asistente Nate para demostrar la veracidad de una formula que estan desarrollando. Paralelamente un rabino investiga quien es Joseph Kobinsky (por su aparicion oculta en la biblia), el cual fue un rabino (y fisico) brillante preso por los Nasis y creador del Libro del Tormento.
La segunda parte narra la aventura que tuvieron dichos personajes en territorios desconocidos. El final es algo medio fljo, pero, vale la pena
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- Compassion and suffering over September 11, not war
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Walking With God in a Fragile World
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This is a book of genuine wisdom, one that invites readers not to go back to the way things were before September 11, but to see how they might try to walk with God in a world tht now seems more shattered than ever before.
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Compassion and suffering over September 11, not war.......2003-04-03
This slender, but by no means slight, volume comes on the heels of at least two dozen books of essays responding to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. What differentiates it is the view(s)of such prominent and diverse writers as Frederick Buechner, Karen Armstrong, Stanley Hauerwas, Jurgen Moltmann, and Elie Wiesel, who focus with compassionate reflection on the anguish and suffering from the horrible events of that day. So many of the responses to 9-11 (not the least of which is the current military engagement in Iraq, following the ousting of the Taliban in Afghanistan) are often steeped in either the outrageously misplaced seething hatred for our Muslim brothers and sisters of the world (thus effectively blaming the overwhelming innocent majority for the hideous acts of a few fanatics), or the warrior language of revenge, frequently arising from the agonizing consternation such terrorism provokes. This thoughtful and deeply heart-felt book is a remedy in such times of desperation and helplessness. Such compassion is not born of naivete or heedless pacifism. On the contrary, true compassion, as expressed in these writings, is the essence of prayerfully embracing our humanity with hope for our shared future. My thanks to all the contributing authors for their efforts.
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