![]() ![]() Our of the frying pan into the fire, as they say. This was the story of a young girl, who got herself engaged to a German pastor by mistake, but sees it as a chance to escape her domineering father. Added to that, most of her books contain autobiographical elements, making you wish you could have known the author herself. This whole book was that way, as was "Elizabeth and her German Garden", the previous von Arnim book I read. And you feel intelligent because of that, knowing that not everyone will. You read a sentence or paragraph, nodding your head and chuckling because you get it. ![]() Unlike humor or books written to amuse and entertain, wit must be appreciated through the lens of the reader's own experiences. Elizabeth von Arnim has that elusive quality, wit. ![]()
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