The Enchanted April Pdf is a classic Historical fiction novel By Elizabeth von Arnim. This novel centres on A recipe for happiness: four women, one medieval Italian castle, plenty of wisteria, and solitude as needed.
The Enchanted April Summary
The women at the center of The Enchanted April are alike only in their dissatisfaction with their everyday lives. They find each other—and the castle of their dreams—through a classified ad in a London newspaper one rainy February afternoon. The ladies expect a pleasant holiday, but they don’t anticipate that the month they spend in Portofino will reintroduce them to their true natures and reacquaint them with joy. Now, if the same transformation can be worked on their husbands and lovers, the enchantment will be complete.
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About Elizabeth Von Arnim Author of The Enchanted April Pdf Book
Elizabeth Von Arnim Author of The Enchanted April Pdf was a British novelist and, through marriage, a member of the German nobility, known as Mary Annette Gräfin von Arnim. Born Mary Annette Beauchamp in Sydney, Australia, she was raised in England and in 1891 married Count Henning August von Arnim, a Prussian aristocrat, and the great-great-great-grandson of King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia.
She had met von Arnim during an Italian tour with her father. They married in London but lived in Berlin and eventually moved to the countryside where, in Nassenheide, Pomerania, the von Arnims had their family estate. The couple had five children, four daughters and a son. The children’s tutors at Nassenheide included E. M. Forster and Hugh Walpole.
In 1898 she started her literary career by publishing Elizabeth and Her German Garden, a semi-autobiographical novel about a rural idyll published anonymously and, as it turned out to be highly successful, reprinted 21 times within the first year. Von Arnim wrote another 20 books, which were all published “By the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden”.
The Enchanted April pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Paperback: 232 pages
- Published July 1st 2008 by Waking Lion Press (first published 1922)
- Original Title: The Enchanted April
- Edition Language:English
- Characters: Lotty Wilkins, Rose Arbuthnot, Lady Caroline Dester, Mellersh Wilkins, Mrs. Fisher.
- Setting: Italy, Portofino (Italy)
The Enchanted April Book Review
5.0 out of 5 stars Give Friendship Time
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 6, 2022
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I loved the friendship that developed among these women, and how if we think we don’t like someone, give it time. We just may discover a quality that we admire & realize that a friendship is blossoming. Lotty is a true gem.
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful descriptions
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 13, 2022
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This book was recommended to me by a friend with similar taste in books, and it did not dissappoint. What stood out to me were the beautiful descriptions of the Italian riviera in springtime and the internal growth of each character. There is little dialogue throughout, but the omnicient narrator keeps the reader aprised of the slow and steady progress of each member of the adventure. It’s a gentle read–no tragedies, nothing triggering, no rises and falls. This book is perfect for the modern reader who is tired of the modern novel and needs a little classic reading “rest.”
4.0 out of 5 stars A Charming Tale of Love and Hope
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 14, 2020
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On a dreary late-winter day in London, two young women spot the same advertisement in a local newspaper: San Salvatore, a castle on a hill above the Ligurian sea in Italy, is available to rent for the entire month of April. The pair, Lotty Wilkins and Rose Arbuthnot, hardly know each other but nevertheless scheme to escape their flagging marriages and disappointing circumstances by taking possession of San Salvatore for thirty days. They can only make it work financially by including two other tenants—the glamorous Lady Caroline Dester and the embittered dowager Mrs. Fisher—both of whom have their own reasons for escaping. Will the unlikely quartet learn to exist together well enough to find the idyllic holiday they are all seeking? Will the intoxicating beauty of the castle and its surroundings restore the love they all find missing in their lives back home? Learning the answers to those questions is just one of the pleasures associated with reading The Enchanted April.
Written as it was about a century ago, it would be easy to regard this novel as merely a light-hearted, romantic look at a bygone time and place. However, that would be far too dismissive for what turned out to be a very satisfying reading experience. Indeed, author Elizabeth von Anrim has crafted here an ebullient and utterly charming tale, which, apparently, is something of an outlier in her catalog of work. She is also deeply insightful with respect to the multi-layered personalities and relationships developed throughout the story, a remarkable achievement given its brief length. The only two flaws I found in the book were the sometimes bloated and overly formal sentences that von Arnim crafted and the implausible (and hardly modern) resolution to Lady Caroline’s storyline. (In fact, the novel does wrap up rather abruptly, which left every character’s storyline feeling a little unresolved.) Still, The Enchanted April is a delightful paean to the transformative power of love as well as a book whose journey outshines its destination.
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