| The Pastor's Wife (Everyman's Library (Paper)) |
| Author: Elizabeth Von Arnim
Creator: Deborah Singmaster
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 338
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0460872435
Dewey Decimal Number: 823
EAN: 9780460872430
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Ingeborg Bullivant decides spontaneously to join a tour to Lucerne-and returns engaged. Yet her new life as a rural Prussian pastor's wife restricts her as much as her old; and when the dashing artist Ingram appears, musing about wondrous Italy, wanderlust tempts her a second time. Von Arnim's accomplished and comic novel is based on her own first marriage and life in provincial Germany at the turn of the century.
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Von Arnim's witty portrayal of fin-de-siecle married life. July 26, 1998
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
This is one of Von Arnim's very best novels, full of surprising wit and sometimes caustic criticism of the lonely existence of an intelligent British woman in a turn-of-the-century aristocratic German household. In particular, the childbirth scenes are chilling, and reminiscent of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, though Von Arnim typically treats the topic with more humor. The ending is as brilliant as those of her contemporary Edith Wharton.
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