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The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen

Elizabeth von Arnim

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The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen | Elizabeth von Arnim
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. . . how embarrassing it would be to the dignified to bathe there. The girls had no dignity, and were not embarrassed. Probably one, or two, of the four-and-twenty were their fathers, and that made them feel at home. Or perhaps—and watching them I began to think that this was so—they would rather have liked to be looked at by those of the painters who were not their fathers. Anyhow, they danced and laughed and called to each other, often glancing back inquiringly at the cliffs; and indeed they were very pretty in their little scarlet suits in the sapphire frame of the sea.

I sat there long after the girls were clothed and transformed into quite uninteresting young women, and had gone their way noisily up the grass slope into the shadows of the beeches. The afternoon stillness was left to itself again, undisturbed by anything louder than the slow ripple of the water round the base of the rocks. Sometimes a rabbit scuttled up the side of the cliff, and once. . . Read More

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5.00
- Emilymcmc - Sep 15, 2012

This is the lady equivalent of Starship Troopers: You can read a satiric commentary, or read a lovely and addicting travel narrative of Baltic resort life 100 years ago. Words are carefully, beautifully chosen (even the descriptions of scenery are interesting), and it's worth a look just to admire t

3.00
- JimZ - Sep 01, 2020

I am on an Elizabeth von Arnim kick. Five novels read and something like 12 to go. What got me started was ‘Vera’ and that was an incredibly good book and then I read “The Enchanted April.” After that I was hooked and off to the races with ‘The Caravaners’ and then ‘Elizabeth and Her German Garden’

5.00
- Lydia - Oct 19, 2018

Rugen is the largest island Germany possesses. It is 32 miles long and 25 miles wide with a population today of 77,000 people. Although it is covered with farms and hotels today, it is rich with history from the Stone Age forward, since it was an important fortress in the Baltic Sea to regulate sea

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