02102cam a2200301 4500 348614588 TxAuBib 20140801120000.0 130715s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013024209 9780345806956 paperback 0345806956 paperback DLC eng DLC DLC TxAuBib Mitford, Nancy, 1904-1973. Highland fling / Nancy Mitford. New York : Vintage Books, 2013. 199 p. ; 21 cm. Vintage "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 Dulloch Castle, where she tramps around a damp and chilly moor on a hunting expedition with formidable Lady Prague, xenophobic General Murgatroyd, one-eyed Admiral Wenceslaus, and an assortment of other ancient and gouty peers of the realm, while falling in love with Albert, a surrealist painter with a mischievous sense of humor. Lighthearted and sparkling with witty banter, Highland Fling was Mitford's first foray into the delightful fictional world for which the author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate later became so celebrated. With an Introduction by Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey"-- Provided by publisher. "First novel by comic British novelist Nancy Mitford, first published in 1931, reissued with an introduction by Julian Fellowes"-- Provided by publisher. 20140801. Families Fiction. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / Family Life. Scotland Fiction. Humorous fiction. Vintage.