Christopher and Columbus
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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 great deal of gray, uneasy, dreadfully wet sea, endless stretches of it, days and days of it, with waves on top of it to make them sick and submarines beneath it to kill them if they could, and knew that they hadn't the remotest idea, not the very remotest, what was before them when and if they did get across to the other side, and knew that they were refugees, castaways, derelicts, two wretched little Germans who were neither really Germans nor really English because they so unfortunately, so complicatedly were both, -they decided, looking very calm and determined and sitting very close together beneath the rug their English aunt had given them to put round their miserable alien legs, that what they really were, were Christopher and Columbus, because they were setting out to discover a New World
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
2 ratings
Delightful eve of WW I romance!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
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.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
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.
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