Elizabeth And Her German Garden - Softcover

Arnim, Elizabeth Von

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420926608 ISBN 13: 9781420926606

Publisher: Digireads.com, 2005

Synopsis

Excerpt: ...left with our mouths open and much out of pocket. This spring, by some mistake, they arrived without their bundles, which had gone astray on the road, and, as they travel in their best clothes, they refused utterly to work until their luggage came. Nearly a week was lost waiting, to the despair of all in authority. Nor will any persuasions induce them to do anything on Saints' days, and there surely never was a church so full of them as the Russian Church. In the spring, when every hour is of vital importance, the work is constantly being interrupted by them, and the workers lie sleeping in the sun the whole day, agreeably conscious that they are pleasing themselves and the Church at one and the same time

About this title

Review:

An extraordinary work ... idyllic ( ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD)

A gem of a book: rare, simple, innocent and charming. I was captivated ( SUSAN HILL, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING)

Elizabeth von Arnim is a mistress of irony ( LISA ST AUBIN DE TERAN)

She has a wild sense of comedy and a vision - continually thwarted though it was - of potential happiness ( PENELOPE MORTIMER)

Book Description:

*A witty and ecstatic tale of transforming a wilderness into a garden

*By the author of The Enchanted April

*Introduced by Elizabeth Jane Howard

About this edition

• Publisher: Digireads.com
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1420926608
• ISBN 13: 9781420926606
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100