Christopher and Columbus

by Elizabeth von Arnim and By the Author of "Elizabeth and Her German Garden [Elizabeth von Arnim]

Book Overview

Their names were really Anna-Rose and Anna-Felicitas; but they decided, as they sat huddled together in a corner of the second-class deck of the American liner St. Luke, and watched the dirty water of the Mersey slipping past and the Liverpool landing-stage disappearing into mist, and felt that it was comfortless and cold, and knew they hadn't got a father or a mother, and remembered that they were aliens, and realized that in front of them lay a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517189772
• ISBN13: 9781517189778
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Delightful eve of WW I romance!

Reviewer: N, Seattle. As I began to write this, having just finished the book, I realized that if this story were a movie it would be a screwball comedy. There is sorrow, fear and laughter all lovingly written. The three main characters are delightful as they strive to find acceptance and finally love in the face of rejection and prejudice. This was written in 1916 and is still fresh and timely. This the third book by this author that I have read and I hope there others.

Orphaned twin girls find a new life in America.

This delightful story of twin adolescent girls orphaned and traveling to a new life in the United States shortly before the U.S. enters World War I has all the fresh, comic charm of Elizabeth Von Arnim's other books. The girls, born of an English mother and a Prussian aristocrat father, find it difficult not to belong totally to one nation in time of war between those nations. They nickname themselves "Christopher" and "Columbus" because they will be discovering a new world for themselves and because as twins, they are almost the same person. Their binational identity brings them trouble everywhere, while their innocence, helplessness, and courage win them friends who help. Who will like this book? Twins, women of all ages, readers who appreciate how delicious the English language can be in the hands of a facile writer, historians of the period, those interested in what it's like to be a refugee or expatriate, and of course Von Arnim fans.