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Elizabeth Von Arnim
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All the Dogs of My Life
Christopher and Columbus
Elizabeth and Her German Garden
Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther
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Mr Skeffington
The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen
The Caravaners
The Enchanted April
The Pastor's Wife
The Solitary Summer
Vera
Elizabeth Von Arnim
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- ISBN: 1844082806
- ISBN-13: 9781844082803
- Publication Date: 02 Feb 2006
- Pages: 500 (203 x 127 x 28)
- Format: Paperback
- Published Price: £12.00
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DESCRIPTION:
*A novel sparkling with von Arnim's characteristic wit and irony *With an afterword by Lisa St Aubin de Teran. Ingeborg Bullivant, the put-upon daughter of the Bishop of Redchester, suddenly becomes possessed by the demon Rebellion and takes a week's tour to Lucerne. Constantly in the company of a ponderous German pastor, she is put into a quandary when he proposes marriage. Faced with her father's wrath on her return, however, Ingeborg accepts her Herr Dremmel with simple relief. But the role of a pastor's wife in East Prussia is not as Ingeborg had imagined, for she has merely exchanged one set of rules for another ... -
REVIEWS:
'Elizabeth von Arnim is a mistress of irony' Lisa St Aubin De Teran *'[von Arnim] was keenly aware of the powerlessness of an intelligent woman in a male-dominated world' Kate Saunders
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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY:
Elizabeth von Arnim was born in 1866 in Sydney, Australia, and brought up in England. She lived much of her life in Switzerland, entertaining guests such as H.G. Wells (with whom she had an affair) and her cousin, Katherine Mansfield. She died in 1941.
