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The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
Elizabeth von Arnim
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The Princess Priscilla of Lothen Kunitz finds court life stifling and runs away to England with the elderly court librarian. Her intention is to live a pure and simple life filled with good works. But life among ordinary people in an English village is not what she expects it to be
The Princess Priscilla of Lothen Kunitz finds court life stifling and runs away to England with the elderly court librarian. Her intention is to live a pure and simple life filled with good works. But life among ordinary people in an English village is not what she expects it to be
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The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight is not author Elizabeth von Arnim at her best. It has many of the same issues as Candide, absent the sharp edged social satire. An aging bookish court Liberian Fritzing instills a set of highly noble sounding, left of center ideals into an impressionable and catere
A brief synopsis of this novel published in 1905: Setting at beginning of novel is a castle in Germany circa end of the 19th century. Princess Priscilla does not like royal life in part because the head librarian of the castle, Fritzing, does not like royalty. Her mind is easily malleable so that by
I don’t think I was quite in the mood for this, because although I enjoyed the ending, I could never really settle in to the tone, which seemed to hover between farce and pathos. It needed to be more Wodehousian, I think...more
"Priscilla, invece, era una sognatrice, una poetessa che non scriveva poesie, dotata di un'anima che non riusciva ad esprimersi a che era colma dei desideri e degli amori da cui nasce la poesia."
Una storia particolare, a tratti ironica, a tratti invece tragica.
Von Arnim racconta di Priscilla, una pr
A well-behaved young princess from a small Ruritanian country breaks out in search of the simple life, attempting to settle in an idyllic English village and wreaking havoc on the inhabitants in her desire to bring them help and pleasure.
This is new to me but I reread The Enchanted April and Christo