by Nancy Mitford · 10/18 · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782264056726
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«Charivari» is Nancy Mitford's satirical novel, published by 10/18 in paperback (260 pages, in French).
Eugenia, a young British heiress, enthusiastically campaigns for the fascist Union Jackshirts party. Around Eugenia move two dandies seeking a dowry, a duchess in trouble and a deceived lady. With humour, the novel satirises love, marriage of convenience and the contradictions of English high society in the 1930s.
Work originally published in 1935 under the title «Wigs on the Green»; translated from the English by Anne Damour with a preface by Charlotte Mosley.
A read for those seeking British satire, comedy of manners and fiction with a political background from the interwar period.
Nancy Freeman-Mitford was an English novelist, biographer, and journalist who was regarded as one of the "bright young things" on the London social scene in the inter-war period. She wrote several novels about upper-class life in England and France, and is considered a sharp and often provocative wit. She also has a reputation as a writer of popular historical biographies.
