Ingeborg Bullivant, the put-upon daughter of the Bishop of Redchester, suddenly becomes possessed by the demon Rebellion and takes a week's tour to Lucerne. Constantly in the company of a ponderous German pastor, she is put into a quandary when he proposes marriage. Faced with her father's wrath on her return, however, Ingeborg accepts her Herr Dremmel with simple relief. But the role of a pastor's wife in East Prussia is not as Ingeborg had imagined, for she has merely exchanged one set of rules for another ...
ISBN: | 9781844082803 |
Publication date: | 2nd February 2006 |
Author: | Elizabeth von Arnim |
Publisher: | Virago Press Ltd an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 496 pages |
Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Classic fiction: general and literary General Fiction Family Drama |