--- product_id: 8460167 title: "Hons and Rebels (New York Review Books Classics)" brand: "jessica mitfordchristopher hitchens" price: "148.80 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/8460167-hons-and-rebels-new-york-review-books-classics store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Hons and Rebels (New York Review Books Classics) **Brand:** jessica mitfordchristopher hitchens **Price:** 148.80 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Hons and Rebels (New York Review Books Classics) by jessica mitfordchristopher hitchens - **How much does it cost?** 148.80 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/8460167-hons-and-rebels-new-york-review-books-classics) ## Best For - jessica mitfordchristopher hitchens enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted jessica mitfordchristopher hitchens brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Hons and Rebels (New York Review Books Classics) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51llw9q5ZML.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars A Girl Gone Wild *by D***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 5, 2009* Wodehouse always averred that he based all his characters (Bertie and chums) on actual characters he had known coming of age in an England roughly contemporaneous with the one Jessica (Decca) Mitford chronicles here. People, even ardent fans, have tended toward the skeptical side regarding Wodehouse's claim. This memoir should lay much of this skepticism to rest. Decca, her sisters and extended family come across as nothing so much as non-fiction Wodehouse - No, not an oxymoron! Above all, this memoir is full of the beauty, eccentricity, insouciance and joy of youth which comes to know sadness and tragedy all too soon.The only way to effectively convey the rum atmosphere of the rural gentry in which Decca was nurtured - now completely vanished from England - is to proffer some select passages. Here, for example, is the family wending their privileged way to the parish church on a typical Sunday:"Every Sunday morning, rain or shine, we stumped off down the hill with Nanny, governess, Miranda, several dogs, Boud's goat, Enid, her pet snake, and my pet dove. Some of the graves in Swinbrook churchyard were conveniently surrounded by high railings for better preservation and privacy. These made good cages for the assorted animals, whose loud yelps, cooing and baaing blended nicely with the lusty voices of the village choir and effectively drowned out most of the ten-minute sermon."And we have eccentric Uncles instead of Wodehouse's eccentric Aunts, but again, real ones:"Uncle Tommy presided as magistrate at the local police court, and in this capacity doled out his own ideas of justice to the local citizenry. He was particularly proud of having given a three months' jail sentence to a woman driver who accidentally ran her car into a cow on a dark night: `Clap `em in the brig! That's one way of keeping these damn' women off the road.'"I'm afraid that such options are no longer open to us, fellows!Of course, most of this book is given to Decca's break with her Wodehousian upbringing, her elopement with Esmond Romilly and ensuing adventures in Spain, the time back in England in the commune on Rotherhithe Street (which, curiously, was the only part of the book which could have been set in England during the 80's when I was an adolescent - just mix in loud music and illicit drugs) and their final idyllic excursion to America. There's a piece on American and British English which is priceless. Americans, you do pronounce your "t" s as "d" s without being aware of it. Don't believe me? - Say "thirty-three" quickly, without thinking! - But that's alright; you remain a much friendlier people and more open society, as Decca and Osmond found.The ending is circumspect, as befits the onset of war and Osmond's death in it. And, of course, there's much to and fro amongst the Mitfords and their biographers about just how scrupulously honest Decca has been here. But the intrepid reader should put such quibbles aside. As Jessica Mitford puts it here:"It is perhaps futile to try to interpret the actions of another - one may be so completely wrong;"And this memoir is so filled with sparkling actions, enchanting circumstances and the wild joys as well as tumbles of any youth worth the having, that I can't imagine any reader not taking delight in it.---I can't think of any laud higher for such a book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars Jessica's side *by R***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 6, 2017* I find the Mitford family very interesting. I chose this book to read more about Jessica's second marriage and later life. Some sections of her child hood repeated much of the information that has been published in other books, but it gave a very good explanation of her side of her elopement. I think as a child, she was the most beautiful daughter. What a family! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting-if diverse-family! *by V***9 on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 15, 2022* Interesting account of a rather eccentric, upper crust British family between the wars, from the standpoint of the glib and observant Communist sister. 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