Elizabeth von arnim books of the bible
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I’ve read a few von Arnims over the years, including “Father“, also republished by the British Library, but I’d never encountered this 1926 novel until the excellent folk at British Library Publishing sent me this reprint in their British Library Women Writers series.
Elizabeth von Arnim – “Introduction to Sally”
(11 August 2023, from the publisher)
Everybody, it appeared, first grabbed at her and then wanted to get rid of her. Everybody; himself too. Yes, he too had grabbed at her, under a mealy-mouthed pretence of helping her, and now he too wanted – not to get rid of her, that seemed too violent, too brutal a way of putting it, but to hand her over, to pass her on, to send her back to that infernal young Luke [her husband], who himself was trying to escape from her and leave her to his mother. (p. 198)
In this novel we meet Salvatia / Sally, daughter of a shopkeeper and possessed of an astounding beauty, who various peo
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Introduction to Sally
Una fortuita sosta in drogheria, un'accecante infatuazione, un improvviso accesso di follia: tanto basta a Jocelyn Luke, studente modello e giovanotto di belle speranze, per gettare all'aria una promettente carriera a Cambridge, e tutta una vita di sacrifici, e trovarsi irrimediabilmente catapultato in una realtà che non gli appartiene, senza più futuro davanti, ma in compenso, con accanto una giovane moglie tanto bella quanto fuori lågland mondo.
La moglie in questione, Salvatia Pinner, detta framstöt, è una delle più incredibili meraviglie della natura: talmente attraente ed aggraziata da essere, suo malgrado, un'autentica calamita per gli sguardi e le fantasie (non troppo innocenti) di orde di baldi giovani, e meno giovani, che al pari del malcapitato Jocelyn, non possono fare a meno di ammirarla ed innamorarsene a prima vista.
Non è facile, dunque, per un ragazzo di buona famiglia, estremamente riservato ed orgoglioso della propria rispett
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Elizabeth von Arnim
Walker, Jennifer. "Elizabeth von Arnim". The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 1: Letters to Correspondents A – J, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020, pp. 20-64. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399504171-007
Walker, J. (2020). Elizabeth von Arnim. In The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 1: Letters to Correspondents A – J (pp. 20-64). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399504171-007
Walker, J. 2020. Elizabeth von Arnim. The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 1: Letters to Correspondents A – J. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 20-64. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399504171-007
Walker, Jennifer. "Elizabeth von Arnim" In The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 1: Letters to Correspondents A – J, 20-64. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. https://d