The Pursuit of Love
  • Published:
    Feb-1970
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Historical Romance
  • Time Period:
    1920's-1930's 20th Century Contemporary
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Mitford's most enduringly popular novel, The Pursuit of Love is a classic comedy about growing up and falling in love among the privileged and eccentric. Now an original series on Prime Video.

“Mitford, describing in a tart and easy fashion the diverting activities of a titled English family, is mocking, good-tempered, and very funny.” -- The New Yorker


Mitford modeled her characters on her own famously unconventional family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin Fanny, who stays with them at Alconleigh, their Gloucestershire estate. Uncle Matthew is the blustering patriarch, known to hunt his children when foxes are scarce; Aunt Sadie is the vague but doting mother; and the seven Radlett children, despite the delights of their unusual childhood, are recklessly eager to grow up.

The first of three novels featuring these characters, The Pursuit of Love follows the travails of Linda, the most beautiful and wayward Radlett daughter, who falls first for a stuffy Tory politician, then an ardent Communist, and finally a French duke named Fabrice.

Featuring an introduction by Zoë Heller.
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EDITIONS
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    • First Edition
    • Feb-1970
    • Penguin (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0140007113
    • ISBN13: 9780140007114
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    • Jul-2010
    • Penguin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0141044012
    • ISBN13: 9780141044019
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    • Aug-2010
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0307740811
    • ISBN13: 9780307740816
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    • Dec-2015
    • Penguin (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0241974682
    • ISBN13: 9780241974681
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    • Jun-2018
    • Penguin (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0241984076
    • ISBN13: 9780241984079
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    • Aug-2010
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307741362
    • ISBN13: 9780307741363
    •  
    • Nov-2015
    • Penguin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0241976782
    • ISBN13: 9780241976784
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    • Jul-1994
    • ISIS Audio Books
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 1850898375
    • ISBN13: 9781850898375



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