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Un'estate Da Sola (1901)

by Elizabeth von Arnim(Favorite Author)
3.9 of 5 Votes: 2
ISBN
8833912809 (ISBN13: 9788833912806)
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English
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Bollati Borighieri
review 1: First published in 1899, so can be challenging for modern reader, but"... how can you make a person happy against his will? You can knock a great deal into him in the way of learning and what the schools call extras, but if you try for ever you will not knock any happiness into a being who has not got it in him to be happy. The only result probably would be tha you knock your own out of yourself...:
review 2: Beautiful, beautiful writing! Only 3 things I regret: 1) apparently this was the sequel to a previous book, which I wish I had read first, 2) the book really should be read sitting outside under a tree in the summer, not on a business trip to Albuquerque in November, and 3) there was a terribly discordant judgmental passage in the book about children born
... moreout of wedlock, but I suppose Von Arnim was a product of her time and I shouldn't be too surprised. less
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Dimana
Von Arnim at her joyous, witty, well read best.
howdydoody
A lovely read for the dead of winter!
heny
Lovely.
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