| #1166869 in Books | 2013-09-24 | 2013-09-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.57 x5.20l,.50 | File type: PDF | 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 (o|| |“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 co
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 Du...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Highland Fling | Nancy Mitford. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
