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The enchanted April / by Elizabeth von Arnim.

by Von Arnim, Elizabeth, 1866-1941.

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British -- Italy -- Fiction.

Female friendship -- Fiction.

Riviera (Italy) -- Fiction.

Virago modern classics.

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9781590172254 (2007 New York Review trade pbk.)

0860685179 (1986 Virago trade pbk.)

0671868640 (1993 Pocket Books pbk.)

1 v. (various pagings).

First published in 1922.

It begins one cold, rainy February afternoon soon after the end of World War I when Mrs. Arbuthnot and Mrs. Wilkins come across an advertisement for a villa in Italy to rent for the month of April. Mrs. Arbuthnot, with the "face of a patient and disappointed Madonna," and Mrs. Wilkins, "her clothes infested by thrift," barely know each other, yet the fantasy of a wisteria-covered Italian villa sparks something in each and brings them together. They raid their meager nest eggs, find two more women - the formidable Mrs. Fisher and the unspeakably lovely but bored Lady Caroline Dester - to help defray costs, and set off for their dream of sunshine and beauty. There are places of refuge, but only one place of salvation, such as the castle, San Salvatore, high above the bay on the Italian Riviera.

Historical fiction.

Women's fiction.

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