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"The Blessing" 1951 MITFORD, Nancy (SOLD)
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MITFORD, Nancy
[305] pp.
Random House
1951
8 1/4" x 5 3/4"
Jacket design by Cecil Beaton
VG/ VG
With characteristically amusing malice, Mitford blends a comedy of manners with culture shock as Grace Allingham, a naive English rose, impulsively marries Charles-Edouard de Valhubert, a French nobleman with all his class's charm and decadence. Both are duped, however, 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.