Die kleine Komtess
by:
Eva Ibbotson (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9783442351596 (3442351596)
Publish date: October 2001
Publisher: Goldmann
Pages no: 287
Edition language: Deutsch
Some short stories are meant to connect by a thread or another. With A Glove Shop in Vienna the only thing that links them is the author from her great loves you seen in her other books from ballet, Russia, family, love affairs,governess and hope. All with her added style and humor. Each is it's own...
These were all short stories by Ibbotson. Unfortunately, I felt that most of them were too short, that without the length of a novel, there was no chance to really get to know and love the characters and so I didn’t feel any payoff from the resolutions. [Mar. 2011]
The first story I read from this collection was "A Question of Riches," which was reprinted in The Persephone Biannually, No. 8 Autumn/Winter 2010-2011. I read it on Black Friday when, after I misread an ad to read that a shop was giving out gift cards to the first 100 customers (it actually said th...
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