Pursuit of Love

Level 5 Penguin Readers

Nancy Mitford

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PENGUIN GROUP USA
16 March 2023

ELT literature & fiction readers; Classic fiction (Children's&YA); Romance & relationships stories (Children's&YA); Family & home stories (Children's&YA); Languages & ESL; English as a Second Language; English as a Second Language

Series: Penguin Graded Readers

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language.

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.

The Pursuit of Love, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.

The Pursuit of Love is about the love adventures of Fanny Logan's cousin, Linda Radlett, who is beautiful, brave and fun. Linda finally finds love and seems happy, but this is the 1930s and her country will soon go to war with Germany. What will happen to Linda then?

By: Nancy Mitford
Imprint: PENGUIN GROUP USA
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 90g
ISBN: 9780241589120
ISBN 10: 0241589126
Series: Penguin Graded Readers
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 16 March 2023
Recommended Age: From 12 to 17 years
Audience: ELT/ESL , Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , Young adult , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Children's (6-12)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born in London, the eldest child of the second Baron Redesdale. She had written four novels, including Wigs on the Green (1935), before the success of The Pursuit of Love in 1945, which she followed with Love in a Cold Climate (1949), The Blessing (1951) and Don't Tell Alfred (1960). She also wrote four works of biography. Nancy Mitford was awarded the CBE in 1972.