The Blessing

8 best books like The Blessing (Nancy Mitford): Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Collected Poems, A Far Cry from Kensington, A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward, A Long Way from Verona, Elizabeth and Her German Garden, Lucia in London, Mapp and Lucia

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Author	Anita Loos
ISBN	0871401703

If any American fictional character of the twentieth century seems likely to be immortal, it is Lorelei Lee of Little Rock, Arkansas, the not-so-dumb blonde who knew that diamonds are a girl’s best friend. Outrageous, charming, and unforgettable, she’s been portrayed on stage and screen by Carol...

Collected Poems

Author	Edna St. Vincent Millay
ISBN	0060908890

When an interviewer once asked Ray Bradbury what he did to prepare to write every day, he answered, “I read poetry.”

He read poetry, to write prose.

It made me want to read more poetry than I already do, and it also inspired me to find new poets, too. I recently came home from the library...

A Far Cry from Kensington

Author	Muriel Spark
ISBN	0811214575

Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilariously portraying love, fraud, death, evil, and transformation. Mrs. Hawkins, the majestic narrator of A Far Cry from Kensington, takes us well in hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar...

A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward

Author	Isaac Metzker
ISBN	0805209808

For more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward's legendary advice column, "A Bintel Brief" ("a bundle of letters") dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded advice to its readers. Created in 1906 to help bewildered Eastern European immigrants learn about their new country, the column also...

A Long Way from Verona

Author	Jane Gardam
ISBN	1609451414

‘I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine'

Jessica Vye's 'violent experience' colours her schooldays and her reaction to the world around her- a confining world of Order Marks, wartime restrictions, viyella dresses,...

Elizabeth and Her German Garden

Author	Elizabeth von Arnim
ISBN	0860684237

"Elizabeth and Her German Garden," a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, was popular and frequently reprinted during the early years of the 20th century. "Elizabeth and Her German Garden" is a year's diary written by Elizabeth about her experiences learning gardening and interacting with her friends....

Lucia in London

Author	E.F. Benson
ISBN	1559212772

Darlings, you simply must visit London! The charmed village of Riseholme may be a country seat of unsurpassed delicacy and dignity when compared to the stridently au courant London Town of the 1920s... but with Riseholme's very own Queen Lucia spending her summer season at 25 Brompton Square, that...

Mapp and Lucia

Author	E.F. Benson
ISBN	0141187689

Subtly brilliant comedy of social rivalry between the wars. Emmeline Lucas (known universally to her friends as Lucia) is an arch-snob of the highest order. In Miss Elizabeth Mapp of Mallards Lucia meets her match. Ostensibly the most civil and genteel of society ladies, there is no plan too devious,...