| #245608 in Books | 2013-09-24 | 2013-09-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.57 x5.20l,.50 | File Name: 0345806956 | 204 pages
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Mitford at her earliest (and nearly her funniest)|By Jay Dickson|HIGHLAND FLING is for the most part so accomplished that it's hard to believe it was Nancy Mitford's first novel: it shows already firmly in place her tremendous gift with witty dialogue and her lifelong love of juxtaposing the differing mindsets of the upper classes. Although it shows some structural weakness (|| |“Highland Fling is a taster of coming delights. . . . It is the first time Mitford attempted to quantify and codify and explain the world of her beginnings, always seen with her wonderful, comic vision. . . . There is cruelty beneath the c
In Highland Fling—Nancy Mitford’s first novel, published in 1931—a set of completely incompatible and hilariously eccentric characters collide in a Scottish castle, where bright young things play pranks on their stodgy elders until the frothy plot climaxes in ghost sightings and a dramatic fire.
Inspired in part by Mitford’s youthful infatuation with a Scottish aristocrat, her story follows young Jane Dacre to a shooting party at D...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Highland Fling | Nancy Mitford. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
