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Old 11-23-2008, 11:20 PM   #1
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Arnim, Elizabeth von: The Caravaners, v.1, 24 November 2008.

The Caravaners [sic] (1909)
By Elizabeth von Arnim [Mary Annette Beauchamp], Countess von Arnim, Countess Russell. (1866–1941).

A Prussian officer is persuaded to go with his wife on a caravan tour of Kent and Sussex, with a group of liberal-minded Britons. Can anything shake him out of his smug German chauvinism and general self-satisfaction? This may well be the most humorous of Elizabeth von Arnim’s novels but, beneath the irony there is a strong feminist message.

A specimen of the dialogue:
I gently began, “Dear wife—” and was going on when she interrupted me.
“Dear husband,” she said, actually imitating me, “I know what you are going to say. I always know what you are going to say. I know all the things you ever can or ever do say.”
She paused a moment, and then added in a firm voice, looking me straight in the eyes, “By heart.”
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good read.

Yes, the above description is quite accurate. It's a bit discomfiting to realize that Elizabeth actually had to live these scenarios out herself, but the humor is entertaining nonetheless.

Actually, this book had me at the opening illustration (I don't know the source). It has always been an aspiration of mine to travel that way, a la Toad, if not floating down a river on a raft. Rather startling, though, to find that the Major was obliged to walk, rather than drive. Not how I had pictured it, either.
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I hope that you enjoy it, CO'Neil. We have several other books by the same author.
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