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The Mitfords de Charlotte Mosley

The Mitfords

Autor Charlotte Mosley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 oct 2008

Aplicabilitatea practică a acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea sa de a servi drept document istoric primar, oferind o perspectivă nefiltrată asupra tensiunilor ideologice care au sfâșiat Europa secolului XX. The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters, editat de Charlotte Mosley, nu este doar o cronică de familie, ci un laborator de istorie socială și politică. Recomandăm această lucrare pentru modul în care reușește să umanizeze extremele: de la obsesia lui Unity pentru Hitler și fascismul Dianei, până la convingerile comuniste ale Jessicăi și succesul literar al lui Nancy. Suntem de părere că structura acestui volum, care adună scrisori anterior nepublicate, oferă o experiență de lectură mult mai intimă decât o biografie clasică. Tonul variază de la umor tăios și bârfe de salon până la disperare și tragedie personală, reflectând fidel spiritul unei epoci în schimbare. Cu peste 800 de pagini și o secțiune bogată de ilustrații, cartea publicată de HarperCollins Publishers devine o resursă esențială pentru studiul aristocrației britanice și al radicalizării politice interbelice. Acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum The Mitford Girls de Mary S. Lovell, dar cu o abordare mult mai directă și documentară. În timp ce Lovell construiește o narațiune biografică externă, volumul de față lasă protagonistele să își spună propria poveste prin cuvinte proprii, fără medierea unui narator. Este o diferență fundamentală de perspectivă care transformă cititorul într-un martor tăcut al istoriei vii.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780061375408
ISBN-10: 0061375403
Pagini: 896
Dimensiuni: 151 x 228 x 68 mm
Greutate: 1.12 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: Harpercollins

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Această colecție de scrisori este esențială pentru pasionații de istorie și biografie care doresc să înțeleagă secolul XX prin ochii a șase femei remarcabile. Cititorul câștigă acces la o arhivă privată rară, unde politica globală se împletește cu dramele domestice. Este un volum monumental despre loialitate, ideologie și arta conversației, oferind o privire autentică în culisele puterii și ale celebrității europene.

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“Fascinating” (Wall Street Journal) and “Irresistible” (New York Times Book Review), The Mitfords is the critically-acclaimed collection of the never-before-published letters of the legendary Mitford sisters
The Mitford sisters were the great wits and beauties of their time. Immoderate in their passions for ideas and people, they counted among their diverse friends Adolf Hitler and Queen Elizabeth II, Cecil Beaton and President Kennedy, Evelyn Waugh and Givenchy. As editor Charlotte Mosley notes, not since the Brontës have the members of a single family written so much about themselves, or have been so written about.
The Mitfords offers an unparalleled look at these privileged siblings through their own unabashed correspondence. Spanning the twentieth century, the magically vivid letters of the legendary Mitfords constitute a superb social and historical chronicle and an intimate portrait of the stormy but enduring relationships between six beautiful, gifted, and radically different women.

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“Fascinating...Their irresistible appeal comes from the way they invite us into the close family circle.” — New York Times Book Review
“Funny, loving, sparkly, snarky, heartbreaking, chilling, gossipy, wise….You’ll be rewarded with six up-close, personal-and sometimes appalling-takes on the 20th century.” — O magazine
“A splendid introduction to the eccentric charms of the Mitford world…On my short list of best books of the year.” — Newsday
“Marvelous...THE MITFORDS is quite simply one of the most sinful guilty pleasures of the season.” — Baltimore Sun
“THE MITFORDS could have been an operatic group biography on an epic scale: Instead, thanks to its editor’s taste and discretion, it is chamber music with symphonic longings… an intriguing record of each sister’s personality… all six could write evocatively, even hauntingly.” — Washington Post Book World
“Marvelous…Beautiful, intelligent, and fiercely independent, each sister went her own way, as is so powerfully revealed in this selection of witty, amusing and sometimes shocking letters…There’s hardly a page that isn’t interesting.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Fascinating...The sisters had the stiff upper lip of their class, and, it must be said, a way with words.” — Wall Street Journal
“Nothing captures their enduring allure quite like their own correspondence…With this epistolary testament to sisterhood, the mystery of the Mitfords...has at last been solved.” — Vogue
“Compelling…The letters are so affecting that it is difficult to refrain from wanting to get to know the sisters better.” — St. Petersburg Times
“An engrossing, deeply personal group portrait…Each letter is a thrilling gem unto itself…Marvelous fun.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Peppered with colorful nicknames, filled with love, encouragement, jealousy and gossip, and written primarily to amuse the recipients, the letters testify to the bonds of sisterhood.” — Publishers Weekly
“The Mitford sisters were brilliant, blazing and beautiful. Their letters, which span most of the twentieth century, bring them to life and take us into a world of luxury, controversy, notoriety, heartbreak and triumph. Amazing, but so are the Mitford sisters.” — Barbara Walters
“The lost art of letter writing is splendidly portrayed in this massive volume….It is not surprising that their letters are clever and humorous; but they are also poignant and revealing.” — Library Journal (starred review)
“A novelist would never get away with inventing this: a correspondence spanning eight decades, written from locations including Chatsworth and HM Prison, Holloway, between six original and talented women who numbered among their friends Evelyn Waugh, Maya Angelou, J F Kennedy and Adolf Hitler. The story of the extraordinary Mitford sisters has never been told as well as they tell it themselves.” — J.K. Rowling

Notă biografică

Charlotte Mosley, Diana Mitford's daughter-in-law, has worked as a publisher and journalist. She has published A Talent to Annoy: Essays, Articles, and Reviews by Nancy Mitford; Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford; and The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh. She lives in Paris.

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Carefree, revelatory and intimate, this selection of unpublished letters between the six legendary Mitford sisters, compiled by Diana Mitford's daughter-in-law, is alive with wit, passion and heartbreak. The letters chronicle the social quirks and political upheavals of the twentieth century but also chart the stormy, enduring relationships between the uniquely gifted - and collectively notorious - Mitford sisters. There's Nancy, the scalding wit and bestselling novelist; Pamela, who craved a quiet country life; Diana, the fascist wife of Sir Oswald Mosley; Unity, whose obsession with Adolf Hitler led to personal tragedy; Jessica, the runaway communist; and Deborah, the socialite who became Duchess of Devonshire. Writing to one another to confide, tease, rage and gossip, the Mitford sisters set out, above all, to amuse. A correspondence of this scope is rare; a collection penned by six born storytellers is irreplaceable.