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    The Solitary Summer
    The Solitary Summer
    The Solitary Summer
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    The Solitary Summer

    By Elizabeth Von Arnim

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    "Last night after dinner, when we were in the garden, I said, "I want to be alone for a whole summer, and get to the very dregs of life. I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow." This witty tale of a rejuvenating summer is a semi-autobiographical tale told in the form of diary entries from a nameless narrator. In it, a woman spends her summer in her garden, away from the social world that she was trained to reside in with all its rules and conventions. Despite the name of the book, the nameless female narrator does not spend her entire summer alone but is instead joined by her daughters and husband – the latter of which she has nicknamed 'The Man of Wrath'. A sequel to her famous début 'Elizabeth and Her German Garden', 'The Solitary Summer' will delight fans of 'Downton Abbey' and ´Bridgerton', whose narratives feature the same social world our heroine is trying to escape. -
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSAGA Egmont
    Release dateJan 26, 2023
    ISBN9788728397213
    The Solitary Summer
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    Elizabeth Von Arnim

    Elizabeth von Arnim was born in Australia in 1866 and her family moved to England when she was young. Katherine Mansfield was her cousin and they exchanged letters and reviewed each other’s work. Von Arnim married twice and lived in Berlin, Poland, America, France and Switzerland, where she built a chalet to entertain her circle of literary friends, which included her lover, H. G. Wells. Von Arnim’s first novel, Elizabeth in Her German Garden, was semiautobiographical and a huge success on publication in 1898. The Enchanted April, published in 1922, is her most widely read novel and has been adapted numerous times for stage and screen. She died of influenza in 1941.

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