The Solitary Summer Elizabeth Von Arnim 9781484977217 Books
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A wonderful sequel to Elizabeth and Her German Garden. A witty account of a summer, filled with delightful descriptions of larkspurs, cooling summer walks, and clambering up the mud bank.
The Solitary Summer Elizabeth Von Arnim 9781484977217 Books
The book gets five stars, but do NOT buy the Cassia Press/Create Space edition (the white one with the red poppy on the cover). It is MISSING the last few pages of the story. The book ends mid-sentence, I kid you not, and all that is left is blank space. Obviously a printing error. I had to go to Project Gutenberg to find out what happens in the end of the book. Talk about terrible quality control!Not only that, throughout the book there are spaces missing -- "see the" becomes "seethe," etc.
I wish there were a way to differentiate in a review between the book and the edition; if you know how, let me know. The story and writing itself are wonderful. This edition is not worth the paper it's printed on.
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The Solitary Summer Elizabeth Von Arnim 9781484977217 Books Reviews
I'm sorry, but I did not like this book very much. I found it boring and found it difficult to finish.
A little convaluted and hard to follow who all the characters are. Had some really well written parts, but would not highly recommend it.
Although what we today would consider an 'old-fashioned' writer, Von Arnim's style and use of the language can be breathtaking. If you appreciate fine writing and amazing use of the English language, you will enjoy this book. Not a great deal happens in the plot, but you will constantly find yourself re-reading a sentence or description just to appreciate the sheer beauty of the words and thoughts. As a writer, it's a book I plan to keep handy to remind myself just how exceptional the written word can be.
The author had her own preferences and views on what the perfect garden should be and shares them with the reader. This was a wonderful story and filled with descriptive flowers and vegetation as well as the many books she loved to read in different areas of the garden. As the reader travels though her world, the author shares memories, reflections and her wit shines through. I found the book a very enjoyable read.
I should have read Elizabeth and her German Garden first, as this is a follow up to that book. The book is somewhat autobiographical, about her attempt to spend a solitary summer in her garden. I enjoyed a lot of the author's general observations in her unique voice.
A nice quote on the pursuit of money "What a waste of life, just getting and spending. ... They are only pennies, after all --unpleasant, battered copper things, without a gold piece among them, and never worth the degradation of self, and the hatred of those below you who have fewer, and the derision of those above you who have more."
Would you believe our author wrote in the early years of the twentieth century? The form is that of a journal with a few lapses. Elizabeth rhapsodizes about the joys of her garden, comments on British gardens and those of Germany, her native country. Along the way there are opinions voiced with humor and some feminine subtleties.
It is an ebook. Previously I saw "Enchanted April" movie, from vonArnim's book. I listened to that on audio book by the perfect reader, and then got it for the . I hear the voice in my head reading all of vonArnim's books. This one, "The Solitary Summer" is poetry to please a gardener's soul in winter.
"The Solitary Summer" was written a year after Elizabeth von Arnim's acclaimed first publication "Elizabeth and Her German Garden," and has so much of the same feel that it almost seems like an addendum. Here again we have all the makings of an autobiography funny, unconventional English Elizabeth; her husband, the unromantic, German "Man of Wrath"; and her three daughters the April, May and June babies. And here again we have the celebration of nature and the pure enjoyment of what it is to just have the freedom to soak it all in, written by a woman who seemed to ask little more of life than to just be left alone in a field of daffodils on a warm day.
Hence, her wistful request to the Man of Wrath that she be allowed to have a summer all to herself. She doesn't receive this, but in even detailing her attempts, and the other repercussions of being a lover of flowers in an upstanding German aristocratic household of the late 20th century, Elizabeth writes a book worth reading ... preferably while sitting in a field of daffodils.
The book gets five stars, but do NOT buy the Cassia Press/Create Space edition (the white one with the red poppy on the cover). It is MISSING the last few pages of the story. The book ends mid-sentence, I kid you not, and all that is left is blank space. Obviously a printing error. I had to go to Project Gutenberg to find out what happens in the end of the book. Talk about terrible quality control!
Not only that, throughout the book there are spaces missing -- "see the" becomes "seethe," etc.
I wish there were a way to differentiate in a review between the book and the edition; if you know how, let me know. The story and writing itself are wonderful. This edition is not worth the paper it's printed on.
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