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.The Enchanted April (Virago Modern Classics)

by: Elizabeth Von Arnim

November 27, 1991
The 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.
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.Elizabeth and Her German Garden (Virago Modern Classics)

by: Elizabeth Von Arnim

February 02, 2006
To me, this is much the best of Von Arnim's writing. Describing the joys and tribulations of a young English woman marrying a German aristocrat she centres on the haphazard creation of her garden and the activities of her children in an examination of European mores.

Her tone is anything but dusty. A top-selling author of her day she seems to have more in common with - the best - Sunday newspaper columnists of today than with her contemporaries. She battles both with chauvanism and the demands of running a country house which threaten to quell her free-wheeling attitude to life, in a style as fresh as it was at the turn of the century.
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.The Solitary Summer (Virago Modern Classics)

by: Elizabeth Von Arnim

February 02, 2006
Elizabeth von Arnim lived an uncoventional life. Despite being a member of German aristocracy through marriage, she rejected the frivolous life-style of her class and found refuge in books and nature.

The Solitary Summer is the very funny and life-affirming account of a year at her summer residence. She writes of her children, of her attempts at gardening and the rigours of running her household. A theme throughout is her longing to throw down her responsibilities and escape to the countryside or to her library.

Von Arnim was a feminist but one who recognised that wit was perhaps the best weapon in puncturing the chauvanism and narrow-mindedness of her age. Her voice rings out as caustic, playful and beguiling as it ... Read More:
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.The Enchanted April: Intermediate (Macmillan Reader)

by: Elizabeth Von Arnim, Margaret Tarner

April 20, 2005
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.
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.The Solitary Summer (Virago Modern Classics)

by: Elizabeth Von Arnim

February 18, 1993
Elizabeth von Arnim lived an uncoventional life. Despite being a member of German aristocracy through marriage, she rejected the frivolous life-style of her class and found refuge in books and nature.

The Solitary Summer is the very funny and life-affirming account of a year at her summer residence. She writes of her children, of her attempts at gardening and the rigours of running her household. A theme throughout is her longing to throw down her responsibilities and escape to the countryside or to her library.

Von Arnim was a feminist but one who recognised that wit was perhaps the best weapon in puncturing the chauvanism and narrow-mindedness of her age. Her voice rings out as caustic, playful and beguiling as it ... Read More:
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.The Pastor's Wife

by: Elizabeth Von Arnim

February 02, 2006
When Ingeborg Bullivant, dutiful daughter of the overbearing Bishop of Redchester, finds herself surprisingly at liberty in London with seven guineas to spend after some dental work proves to be more straightforward than expected, an audacious idea enters her head: to spend the money on a 'Dent's Excursion' to the Continent. This act of rebellion proves to be straightforward enough to carry out - but turns out to have unforeseen consequences, with Ingeborg ending up the wife of a pastor in an isolated German village.

In this stunning novel, first published in 1914, Elizabeth von Arnim describes Ingeborg's adventures: her naive, optimistic and ever dutiful attempts to make a success of her new life and subsequent dramatic 'elopement' to ... Read More:
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.All the Dogs of My Life (Virago Modern Classic)

by: Elizabeth Von Arnim

March 30, 1995
Elizabeth von Arnim lived an unconventional life, shot through with both tragedy and personal success. It is characteristic of the quirky sense of humour found in her writing that she should ignore the sparkling social circle of which she was a part and choose to write the lives of her dogs.

Throughout the book we are given tantalising glimpses of the turbulance - and joy - of von Arnim's wider experiences. This short work will delight both dog-lovers and fans of the author.
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.Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther

by: Elizabeth Von Arnim

February 02, 2006
Rose-Marie Schmidt lives with her father, a Goethe scholar, in the provincial German town of Jena at the turn of the century. Into their narrow life comes Roger Anstruther, a dashing young Englishman ... But it's not a traditional love story by any means. The novel starts with their engagement and Roger's return to England, and is a wonderfully subtle story of betrayal, friendship and the shifting balances of power in any relationship. This is a totally enchanting story, a portrait of a vanished pre-war world but also a tart dissection of relations between the sexes. Possibly also the first and best book written on long-distance relationships.
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.All the Dogs of My Life

by: Elizabeth Von Arnim

February 02, 2006
Rose-Marie Schmidt lives with her father, a Goethe scholar, in the provincial German town of Jena at the turn of the century. Into their narrow life comes Roger Anstruther, a dashing young Englishman ... But it's not a traditional love story by any means. The novel starts with their engagement and Roger's return to England, and is a wonderfully subtle story of betrayal, friendship and the shifting balances of power in any relationship. This is a totally enchanting story, a portrait of a vanished pre-war world but also a tart dissection of relations between the sexes. Possibly also the first and best book written on long-distance relationships.
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.The benefactress

by: Elizabeth VON ARNIM

1902
Rose-Marie Schmidt lives with her father, a Goethe scholar, in the provincial German town of Jena at the turn of the century. Into their narrow life comes Roger Anstruther, a dashing young Englishman ... But it's not a traditional love story by any means. The novel starts with their engagement and Roger's return to England, and is a wonderfully subtle story of betrayal, friendship and the shifting balances of power in any relationship. This is a totally enchanting story, a portrait of a vanished pre-war world but also a tart dissection of relations between the sexes. Possibly also the first and best book written on long-distance relationships.
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