Christopher and Columbus
Elizabeth Von Arnim
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Description
Elizabeth von Arnim, billed only as the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden, published her twin novel with Doubleday, Page in 1919. Anna-Rose and Anna-Felicitas, seventeen-year-old twins, cross the Atlantic on the liner St. Luke in wartime. They are orphans, half German and half English, and aliens everywhere. Under a rug on the second-class deck they rename themselves Christopher and Columbus, off to discover a New World.
Mr. Twist, their unwilling escort to America, finds his charge complicated at landfall. The man meant to receive the twins, Mr. Dellogg, has inconveniently died. Twist resents a corpse for spoiling his plans, and knows he is unreasonable. The twins love him simply anyway, as the frontispiece shows. Comedy and pathos share the voyage, in von Arnim's lightest wartime manner.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Elizabeth Von Arnim |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 653 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |