‘Elizabeth’ captures so well the affectionate feeling that I have about my own books, stacked in the study, in prime position on the bedstand, overflowing from bookcases.
She’s speaking here about books and her love of reading in the second book of the series– Solitary Summer-but it’s a theme that pops up often in von Arnim’s work. That’s ‘Elizabeth’, the first-person narrator of a series of book that launched the career of the writer we now know as Elizabeth von Arnim. “ are such special friends that I can hardly pass them without a nod and a smile at the well-known covers, each of which has some pleasant association of time and place to make it still more dear.”
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