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Elizabeth von Arnim

The Enchanted April

An entertaining story of four dissimilar women in post-World War I England who leave damp and rainy London for a holiday at a secluded villa on the Italian coast. Two housewives, who belong to the same church but have never spoken, are joined by a beautiful young socialite and an elderly dowager.
288 printed pages
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  • LiterariaLetterhas quoted5 months ago
    Of course her disagreeable inside was camouflaged as usual by the chance arrangement of her outside; but she knew it. She was churlish. She had been churlish to everybody for years. Any penetrating eye, thought Scrap, any really penetrating eye, would see her for what she was—a spoilt, a sour, a suspicious and a selfish spinster.
  • LiterariaLetterhas quoted5 months ago
    Compunction laid its quick, warm hand on Scrap. Impulsive gratitude flooded her. She went straight up to Briggs.

    "I owe you so much," she said, overcome by the sudden realization of all she did owe him, and ashamed of her churlishness in the afternoon and at dinner.
  • LiterariaLetterhas quoted5 months ago
    It seemed out of the picture that the owner of the place, the person to whom they owed all this, should be the only one to go away from it unblessed.

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