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Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther

Elizabeth von Arnim

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. . .I am not going to beat the big drum of sentiment and make a wailful noise. Nothing is so dead as a dead infatuation. The more a person was infatuated the more he resents an attempt to galvanize the dull dead thing into life. I am wise, you see, to the end. And reasonable too, I hope. And brave. And brave, I tell you. Do you think I will be a coward, and cry out? I make you a present of everything; of the love and happy thoughts, of the pleasant dreams and plans, of the little prayers sent up, and the blessings called down—there were a great many every day—of the kisses, and all the dear sweetness. Take it all. I want nothing from you in return. Remember it as a pleasant interlude, or fling it into a corner of your mind where used-up things grow dim with cobwebs. But do you suppose that having given you all this I am going to give you my soul as well? To moan my life away, my beautiful life? You are not worth it. You are not worth anything, hardly. You are quit. . . Read More

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4.5 stars. A gorgeous work by one of my favourite authors. A book to just lie back and luxuriate in.

So, this is a solid 3-star rating — definitely worth reading. I have to tell you that this started out as a 2-star book. This is my 7th book I have read by Elizabeth and I am a devotee. I felt terrible while preparing to give it a 2-star rating...how to explain such a thing in my review?

Insieme a "Il giardino di Elizabeth" uno dei migliori Von Armin, anno 1907.
Acuto e schietto, brillante e ironico, un romanzo epistolare che versa in un soliloquio incredibilmente affascinante, dove determinazione si sostituisce ad amore, poi fuga e velato disprezzo (anche nelle altrui critiche la Vo

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