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In questa narrazione autobiografica - il diario di un anno trascorso nella natura della Pomerania - la protagonista decide, dopo la nascita di tre figlie, di abbandonare la vita cittadina per raggiungere l'isolata tenuta familiare, così da allontanarsi talvolta da suo marito, l'Uomo della Collera, e trovare la forza di essere qualcosa di più di una buona moglie. Il suo raccoglimento, tuttavia, ha poco di idillico o pastorale: ai commenti sulla bellezza e la pace della natura si affiancano le considerazioni ironiche sulla società, la cronaca umoristica dei suoi errori e idiosincrasie e il tagliente umorismo verso chi osa disturbare la sua solitudine. Tornato recentemente alla ribalta in Inghilterra grazie alla serie televisiva Downton Abbey, Il giardino di Elizabeth fu un grande successo sin dalla sua prima edizione, avvenuta nel 1898, che surclassò autori di grande fama come Marie Corelli e H.G. Wells.
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- Pagine: 128
- Data di uscita: 26-09-2017
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3.5 stars “… I don’t love things that will only bear the garden for three or four months in the year and require coaxing and petting for the rest of it. Give me a garden full of strong, healthy creatures, able to stand roughness and cold without dismally giving in and dying. I never could see that de Leggi tutto
Elizabeth and her German Garden is a semi-autobiographical book written in 1898 by Elizabeth von Arnim (author of The Enchanted April ) about her life and garden in the area of Nassenheide, Pomerania, where the family had their estate (her husband was minor nobility). Pomerania is an area in the nort Leggi tutto
This is the fourth book I have read by Elizabeth von Arnim. This is the first book she wrote in her literary career (1898) and it was quite the literary hit, going quickly into multiple printings and being published in different languages. She was 32 at the time, 7 years into her marriage to a rich, Leggi tutto
It’s difficult to see this as fiction. It mirrors an early point in von Arnim’s life very closely. Perhaps the author had it published as just “Elizabeth” because of her husband, semi-jokingly (I hope) is called the Man of Wrath here. As the book went on I tired of Elizabeth. Sometimes she’s fey, imp Leggi tutto
“It makes one very humble to see oneself surrounded by such a wealth of beauty and perfection anonymously lavished, and to think of the infinite meanness of our own grudging charities, and how displeased we are if they are not promptly and properly appreciated. I do sincerely trust that the benedict Leggi tutto
After enjoying Enchanted April so much I was suprised I didn't enjoy this one. I found Elizabeth unkind and shallow. Taking a baby owl from a nest was horrible. I know you have to view this through eyes of the time but I found her views of people from a class she saw as below her awful.
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