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The Enchanted April: Intermediate (Macmillan Reader) by: Elizabeth Von Arnim, Margaret Tarner List Price: £3.75 City Travel Guides Price: £3.56 You Save: £0.19 ( 5%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781405072915 ISBN: 1405072911 Label: Macmillan ELT Manufacturer: Macmillan ELT Number Of Pages: 80 Publication Date: April 20, 2005 Publisher: Macmillan ELT Studio: Macmillan ELT Sales Rank: 106749 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - EnchantingHaving loved both filmed versions of this story, I came to the book not anticipating any surprises, and in that respect I was correct. What I did get, however, was a more fully-formed understanding of each of the four women who come to San Salvatore. Each has her own quest, and each is surprised in the way that her quest is resolved. Elizabeth von Arnim can harness language in ways that few other authors are able. She is, for instance, able to display what a walking joke Mr. Wilkins is, while letting him think that he's the very model of an educated man. I started off loathing both Mrs. Fisher and Lady Caroline Dester in a way that wasn't true when watching the films. This made their transformations that much more satisfying, ... Read More: Rating:  - misleading (I think)I haven't actually read this so I can't review the story, but have purchased this edition of the book I wanted to read, only to realise that it isn't the full book, it's a 'retold' version aimed at people learning to read. Not a dis to that concept, just that I feel it's unlikely you'll realise before you actually have the book in your hands unless you know what Macmillan Readers are (obviously I didn't), as there is no indication in the details here. Rating: - Enchanted AprilThe image of Italy, in a time of gentle romance falls from the page. It is as refreshing as a glass of crisp white wine, while bathing in the evening sun. The characters are at one time seperate holiday makers and a collective changing of attitudes to others and to themselves.On the face of it, it is a book about four women who go on holiday together but in fact it is about taking chnaces no matter how small or big. It is the perfect book for anyone who has been in love with a place and a person at the same time and will be again. Rating: - The Restorative Power of BeautyMuch like the film this book by Elizabeth Von Arnim inspired, there is something peaceful here on these pages. This is a gentle novel about the gradual internal changes brought about by the beauty of our surroundings. It is a book that reads itself as much as it is read, the author writing with the flow of the characters thoughts and feelings as their hearts are changed by the suprise of beauty. An ad to rent a castle in San Salvatore on the Italian Riviera will prompt two British women, Rose and Lottie, with only a passing acquaintance, to inexplically leave their husbands behind for a summer that will change their lives and their marriages forever. Joining Rose and Lottie for this holiday is Mrs. Fisher, an older woman living in ... Read More: Rating: - Light, beautiful and full of magicI love this book. I've read it several times and it's as lovely each time. Last time I read the whole book on a long train journey and I didn't mind the long delays because I was enjoying myself! I think it's a happy, dreamy, magical book, full of flowers, sunshine and emotion. The characters become more and more truly themselves as the book progresses. |
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