The Pursuit of Love
Nancy Mitford · 1945
Mitford's comic masterpiece about the Radletts, the most gloriously chaotic aristocratic family in English fiction. Fundamentally a love story: Linda's serial heartbreaks, and then her luminous final love, told by a narrator who worships her. Brilliant and sharp, funny and then unexpectedly devastating.
The case against
Charm is the whole engine, and it requires you to find the upper classes adorable: Uncle Matthew hunting his children with bloodhounds is a hoot only from a certain altitude. Linda abandons a daughter and the novel barely glances back. Fabrice, the great final love, is a rich man's silhouette. Mitford's wit is real; the moral weather is very thin.
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