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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Christmas Pudding & Pigeon Pie
  title info:
    title: Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie
  title info:
    title: Pigeon Pie
  name:
    name part: Mitford, Nancy
    name part: 1904-1973
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Smiley, Jane.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Humorous fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    edition: First Vintage Books edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 354 pages ; 21 cm.
  abstract: Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie are two sparkling comedies from early in the career of Nancy Mitford, beloved author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, here published in one volume with a new introduction by Jane Smiley. In Christmas Pudding, an array of colorful characters converge on the hunt-obsessed Lady Bobbin's country house, including her rebellious daughter Philadelphia, the girl's pompous suitor, a couple of children obsessed with newspaper death notices and an aspiring writer whose serious first novel has been acclaimed as the funniest book of the year, to his utter dismay. In Pigeon Pie, set at the outbreak of World War II, Lady Sophia Garfield dreams of becoming a beautiful spy but manages not to notice a nest of German agents right under her nose, until the murder of her maid and kidnapping of her beloved bulldog force them on her attention, with heroic results. Delivered with a touch lighter than that of Mesitford's later masterpieces but no less entertaining, these comedies combine glamour, wit, and fiendishly absurd plots into irresistible literary confections.
  note: Nancy Mitford ; foreword by Jane Smiley.
  note: "A Vintage original."
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Family Life
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Humorous
  subject:
    topic: Christmas
    geographic: England
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    geographic: England
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PR6025.I88 C45 2013
  classification: 823/.912
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Pigeon Pie
    name:
      name part: Mitford, Nancy,
      name part: 1904-1973
  identifier: 9780345806628 (paperback)
  identifier: 034580662X (paperback)
  identifier: 2013024214
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130715
    record change date: 20151206085638.0
    record identifier: in00003413445