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The Caravaners (Paperback)
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The Caravaners (Paperback)
Series: Handheld Classics, 10
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Elizabeth von Arnim's eighth novel is a sharp contrast to the sunny
optimism of her first best-seller Elizabeth and her German Garden
(1898) and her later hit The Enchanted April (1922, adapted several
times for screen and stage, including the 1991 film). The
Caravaners (1909) is a devastating comedy about an Edwardian
caravan holiday in Kent, narrated by the pompous and self-important
Baron, a Prussian Major in the German army. His narrative of pained
bewilderment at the bizarre behaviour of the English people with
whom he has chosen to spend a month in a convoy of horse-drawn
holiday caravans (they unaccountably cut the holiday short after
only a week) is side-splittingly funny. We sympathise deeply with
the lady whom he pursues in a platonic and very one-sided holiday
affair, and even more with Baroness Edelgard, the Baron's
long-suffering and much younger second wife, who discovers her own
holiday freedoms, and becomes newly emancipated in her marriage, to
the Baron's horror. `Elizabeth von Arnim' was the pen-name of Mary
Annette Beauchamp (1866-1941), an Australian-born British novelist
and a cousin of Katherine Mansfield. Her much-loved Prussian
husband, Count Henning von Arnim, died a year after she published
The Caravaners. The novel reflects her frustration with and
exasperated affection for German aristocratic society, and reveals
the lost world of European social networks and crusted assumptions
that disappeared forever with the First World War, only a few years
after The Caravaners' publication. It is also one of the funniest
feminist novels ever written.
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