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Wenige Familien aus der englischen Aristokratie vereinten die dünkelhaften, hinterweltlichen, aber auch die zuweilen radikal unkonventionellen Züge dieser Gesellschaftsschicht in so burlesker Konzentration auf sich wie die Mitfords in den dreißiger Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die Töchter aus diesem guten Hause heirateten Brauereierben und Faschisten, waren glühende Bewunderinnen von Adolf Hitler, gingen auf die Fuchsjagd und endlose Cocktail...

First published in 1974, The American Prison Business studies the lunacies, the delusions, and the bizarre inner workings of the American prison business.

The captivating letters by the most idiosyncratic, witty and irrepressible sisters of one of the most notorious families of the 20th century'Enthralling and gloriously honest' SUNDAY TIMES

The brilliantly entertaining classic memoir of one of the century's most extraordinary families, The Mitfords

Un classico della memorialistica inglese che racconta un'infanzia fuori dal comune e un'adolescenza ribelle in una famiglia "non esattamente convenzionale": i Redensdale, leggendari aristocratici del Regno Unito. Cinque sorelle che invadono le pagine dei rotocalchi. Due genitori eccentrici a cui sembra volgare che Nancy scriva romanzi e Diana sposi un miliardario come Guinness, mentre non aprono bocca sulla passione di Unity per il nazismo. Je...

Wenige Familien aus der englischen Aristokratie vereinten die dünkelhaften, hinterweltlichen, aber auch die zuweilen radikal unkonventionellen Züge dieser Gesellschaftsschicht in so burlesker Konzentration auf sich wie die Mitfords in den dreißiger Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die Töchter aus diesem guten Hause heirateten Brauereierben und Faschisten, waren glühende Bewunderinnen von Adolf Hitler, gingen auf die Fuchsjagd und endlose Cocktailp...

* A savage and hilarious anatomy of America's funeral practices - a classic by this famous English muckraker - revised just before her death* 'Outrageously appalling, wickedly funny and subversive' TIMES

New on the Indigo list. This biography is reissued with a new jacket design. "More than an extremely amusing biography... she has evoked a whole generation." "Sunday Times".

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Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963, this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and resulted in legislation to protect grieving families from the unscrupulous sales practices of those in "the dismal trade."Just before her death in 199...

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Decca” Mitford lived a larger-than-life life: born into the British aristocracy—one of the famous (and sometimes infamous) Mitford sisters—she ran away to Spain during the Spanish Civil War with her cousin Esmond Romilly, Winston Churchill's nephew, then came to America, became a tireless political activist and a member of the Communist Party, and embarked on a brilliant career as a memoirist and muckraking journalist (her funeral-industry exp...

El aire de este libro chispea en las solemnes palabras pronunciadas por su autora cuando contemplaba las pirámides egipcias: «He aquí una sociedad donde el negocio de la pompa fúnebre se salió completamente de madre». Jessica (1917-1996) era la oveja colorada del formidable y aristocrático rebaño formado por la seis hermanas Mitford, joyas de la sociedad mundana en la Inglaterra de entreguerras y piedras de memorables escándalos que no excluía...

Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1979.