Amore

This is my first foray into Elizabeth von Arnim’s oeuvre this year. It is the 14th book I have read of hers with about 4 more to go. I am a big fan of Elizabeth von Arnim. ‘Love’ was nearly 400 pages. For von Arnim aficionados I would recommend you eventually read this so you can say you have read it… Leggi tutto

Amor ha sido mi quinta novela de Elisbeth von Arnim y se ha convertido en mi favorita de la autora hasta el momento. Como siempre, la autora nos ofrece una narración elegante, distinguida, delicada y muy pulida. Este libro, como su nombre indica, habla del amor en varias de sus facetas: romántico, f Leggi tutto

This is a novel I have read at least twice before. It is a very unusual and worthwhile book. At times laugh-out-loud funny, and at others so touching as to draw tears. It is about a young man of about twenty-five who falls in love with a woman twenty years older than he is, but that is only the very Leggi tutto

Elizabeth Von Arnim’s heroine in Love was too conventional to think of herself as retaining any qualities that might attract a man. Catherine is a widow of ten years and if not happy in her role as a not very popular mother-in-law and soon to be grandmother she is resigned to perform this role. Most Leggi tutto