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The blessing (1951)

The blessing (1951)

Literary Fiction

Nancy Mitford

Year: 1951
Authors: Nancy Mitford
Print type: BOOK

Description:

With razor-sharp wit, Mitford blends a comedy of manners with culture shock as Grace Allingham, a naive English rose, marries Charles-Edouard de Valhubert, a French aristo who doesn't believe in fidelity. Both are duped, meantime, by their son Sigismund -- the Blessing of the title -- a juvenile Machiavelli who mixes Gallic cunning with Saxon thoroughness to become one of Mitford's most memorable characters.