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Title: The Solitary Summer (Virago Modern Classics) by Elizabeth von Arnim ISBN: 1-85381-553-5 Publisher: Virago Pr Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Diary of a solitary summer, alone with garden,books,thoughts
Comment: This book captivated both me and my best friend. The issue of the book I read was printed in 1907 and is titled The Solitary Summer by the author of "Elizabeth and her German Garden". Nowhere else in the book does it ever reveal the author's name. The book starts out with a dedication "To the man of Wrath with some apologies and much love". The book is a diary (May-September) of a woman with 3 small babies (referred to only as my April baby, my May baby, my June baby) who wants to spend the entire summer to herself.The first page of the book begins. "May 2nd - 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. Nobody shall be invited to stay with me, and if any one calls they will be told that I am out, or away, or sick. I shall spend the months in the garden, and on the plain, and in the forests. I shall watch the things that happen in my garden, and see where I have made mistakes. On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forests, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I'll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me." And so begins her solitary summer, filled with books, the garden(s), nature, her thoughts and reflections. And conversations with her husband who does not believe she can endure an entire summer without visitors.
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Title: Elizabeth and Her German Garden (Virago Modern Classics) by Elizabeth Von Arnim ISBN: 0860684237 Publisher: Virago Press (UK) Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: The Enchanted April (Virago Modern Classics) by Elizabeth Von Arnim, Elizabeth Von Arnim ISBN: 0860685179 Publisher: Virago Pr Pub. Date: November, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: ALL THE DOGS OF MY LIFE by Elizabeth Von Arnim, Elizabeth Von Arnim ISBN: 1860491103 Publisher: Virago Pr Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Mr Skeffington (Virago Modern Classics) by Elizabeth Von Arnim, Elizabeth Von Arnim ISBN: 1853816779 Publisher: Virago Pr Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen (Virago Modern Classics) by Elizabeth Von Arnim ISBN: 1853812234 Publisher: Virago Pr Pub. Date: November, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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