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Author Von Arnim, Elizabeth, 1866-1941, author.

Title The enchanted April / Elizabeth von Arnim ; edited with an introduction and notes by Isobel Maddison.

Publication Info. Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.

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Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F VON ARNIM ELIZABETH    Check Shelf
Description xlix, 200 pages ; 20 cm.
Series Oxford world's classics
Oxford world's classics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Four very different women---the dishevelled and downtrodden Mrs Wilkins, the sad, sweet-faced Mrs Arbuthnot, the formidable widow Mrs Fisher, and the ravishing socialite Lady Caroline Dester---are drawn to the shores of the Mediterranean that April. As each, in turn, blossoms in the warmth of the Italian spring and finds their spirits stirring, quite unexpected changes occur. The Enchanted April (1922) is a deceptive and timely novel immured in a post-war context, a period noted for its wistful and sometimes satiric writings. Von Arnim's novel is part of this oeuvre and portrays an escape to a carefully described pastoral enclave away from encroaching urbanisation and the spread of new technologies, in an era when the Great War had left many emotionally and physically starved. The journey to San Salvatore by four unhappy women is an escape from stifling parochialism, constraining social and gendered expectations as well as stultifying insularity, but the evocation of an extraordinarily aesthetic and 'enchanted' location suggests more than personal recuperation.
Subject British -- Italy -- Riviera -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Riviera (Italy) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
British. (OCoLC)fst00839044
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Italy -- Riviera. (OCoLC)fst01241301
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Added Author Maddison, Isobel, editor.
ISBN 0198859090 paperback
9780198859093 paperback
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