{"product_id":"the-enchanted-april-isbn-9781590172254","title":"The Enchanted April","description":"A recipe for happiness: four women, one medieval Italian castle, plenty of wisteria,  and solitude as needed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe women at the center of \u003ci\u003eThe Enchanted April \u003c\/i\u003eare alike  only in their dissatisfaction with their everyday lives. They find each other—and  the castle of their dreams—through a classified ad in a London newspaper one rainy  February afternoon. The ladies expect a pleasant holiday, but they don’t anticipate  that the month they spend in Portofino will reintroduce them to their true natures  and reacquaint them with joy. Now, if the same transformation can be worked on their  husbands and lovers, the enchantment will be complete.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Enchanted April\u003c\/i\u003e was a  best-seller in both England and the United States, where it was a Book-of-the-Month  Club selection, and set off a craze for tourism to Portofino. More recently, the  novel has been the inspiration for a major film and a Broadway play.\"A pleasant...little story, with some neat phrasing and a genuine feeling for color  and for beauty.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cb\u003eThe Enchanted April \u003c\/b\u003esounds as if it would  be an appallingly cloying cream puff of a fairy tale, but that would be to ignore  that the author habitually kept a pot of lemon juice mixed with vinegar beside her  ink-pot.  With this bracing element there is additionally what can only be called  a feast of flowers, hanging from every wall and pouring scent over the company.\"--\u003ci\u003eTimes  Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[A]n expression of the propensity of people to be blind to  the real secret of happiness, and that it showed how exquisitely men and women get  upon each others' nerves and how they suffer from each others' egos.\"--\u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"...extraordinarily well written...it is witty, human, often very beautiful.\"--\u003ci\u003ePunch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[A] comedy of absolutely flawless mirth...a very beautiful...and touching book.\"--Chris  Morley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[A] restful, funny, sumptuous, and invigorating vacation for the mind and  soul.\" --\u003ci\u003e500 Great Books By Women\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eA particular kind of witty and well-constructed fiction, a sort of sparkling Euclid, which nobody else can touch.\u003cbr\u003e— Rebecca West\u003cb\u003eElizabeth von Arnim \u003c\/b\u003e(1866—1941) was born Mary Annette Beauchamp in Sydney, Australia. Her first book, the autobiographical novel \u003ci\u003eElizabeth and Her German Garden\u003c\/i\u003e–inspired by the grounds of the estate she shared with her husband, Count Henning August von Arnim–was an enormous success. After the death of her first husband, Elizabeth married Francis the second Earl Russell, brother of Bertrand Russell. It was a disastrous marriage and the two eventually separated.  Von Arnim moved to the US at the start of World War II, and spent her final years there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCathleen Schine\u003c\/b\u003e has received wide acclaim for her five previous novels: \u003ci\u003eAlice in Bed, To the Birdhouse, The Evolution of Jane,\u003c\/i\u003e and the international bestsellers \u003ci\u003eRameau's Niece\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Love Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, both of which were made into feature films. She lives in New York City.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301865181413,"sku":"NP9781590172254","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590172254.jpg?v=1767739167","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-enchanted-april-isbn-9781590172254","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}