The Blessing (Vintage)

by NancyMitford (Author), Caryn James (Introduction)

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $20.32

• Used

  Paperback
  1976

  $3.37

  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.