Frederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become one of history\"s greatest rulers. He loved the flute, and devoted hours of study to the arts and French literature, forming a long-lasting but turbulent friendship with Voltaire....

The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Emilie du Chatelet, was a meeting of both hearts and minds....

Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were two of the twentieth century\"s most amusing and gifted writers, who matched wits and traded literary advice in more than five hundred letters over twenty-two years....

The Penguin Complete Novels of Nancy Mitford. Here in one volume are all eight of Nancy Mitford\"s sparklingly astute, hilarious and completely unputdownable novels: Highland Fling, Christmas Pudding, Wigs on the Green, Pigeon Pie, The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate, The Blessing and Don\"t Tell Alfred....

The Pursuit of Love is about the love adventures of Fanny Logan\"s cousin, Linda Radlett, who is beautiful, brave and fun. Linda finally finds love and seems happy, but this is the 1930s and her country will soon go to war with Germany. What will happen to Linda then?...

Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family....

\"He was the great love of her life you know.\" \"Oh, dulling,\" said my mother, sadly, \"One always thinks that. Every, every time.\" Oh, the tedium of waiting to grow up! Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the lookout for the perfect lover....

Nancy Mitford\"s brilliantly witty, irreverent stories of the upper classes in pre-war London and Paris conjure up a world of glamour, gossip and decadence....

Make a loved one smile with this classic Christmas read - a perfect stocking filler \"Christmas Day was organized by Lady Bobbin with the thoroughness and attention to detail of a general leading his army into battle . . .\" The formidable fox-hunter Lady Bobbin is holding a Christmas house party....

This gossipy account of Louis XIV is a clear and fascinating historical biography from Nancy Mitford. During his reign Louis XIV was the most powerful king in Europe....

When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV - from that day she was groomed to become \"a morsel fit for a King\"....

Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and let\"s not even mention the mysteries of sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the hunt for the ideal lover. But finding the perfect match is much harder than any of the sisters had ever......