A light and pastoral novel compared to her other works, British author Elizabeth von Arnim’s historical fiction The Enchanted April () was inspired by her experience touring the Italian Riviera. It ties together the narratives of four unique women living in Arnim’s present-day England, who somewhat reluctantly band together to vacation in Italy. · This slow paced, lyrical novel is about friendships between women and the joy of literally having a room of one’s own, if only for a month. The Enchanted April, written in , is about four women who rent a castle in Italy together for one month (April, duh). The story is set in motion by an advertisement that reads. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, published in , is dedicated to all who ‘appreciate wisteria and sunshine.’ Four women in England, strangers to Who would have thought that a novel written almost a hundred years ago can bring so much pleasure and delight during our present troubled times?/5(3K).
An April spent in an Italian castle? Yes, please. The four women of Elizabeth von Arnim's The Enchanted April are lucky to have a grand adventure. But author Madeline Miller recommends the book. Von Arnim wrote another 20 books, which were all published "By the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden". Enchanted April was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated feature film, directed by Mike Newell, in , and a Tony Award-nominated stage play by Matthew Barber, in Four very different women, with very different reasons for wanting to escape a cold and dreary London, come together to share a month's holiday in a medieval.
This slow paced, lyrical novel is about friendships between women and the joy of literally having a room of one’s own, if only for a month. The Enchanted April, written in , is about four women who rent a castle in Italy together for one month (April, duh). The story is set in motion by an advertisement that reads. The Enchanted April is a novel by British writer Elizabeth von Arnim. The work was inspired by a month-long holiday to the Italian Riviera, probably the most widely read and perhaps the lightest and most ebullient of her novels. Von Arnim wrote, and set, the book in the 15th-century Castello Brown. Critic Terence de Vere White credited The Enchanted April with making the Italian resort of Portofino fashionable. Four very different women, with very different reasons for wanting to escape a cold and dreary London, come together to share a month's holiday in a medieval.
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