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'Enchanted April' lives up to its name

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From: Daily Breeze
Date: 20040430
Author:JEFF FAVRE; VALENZUELA

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"To those who appreciate wisteria and sunshine."

Even 82 years after Elizabeth von Arnim wrote those words in her novel, The Enchanted April, they still spark a sense of mystery and adventure. And like the character Lotty, who reads them in a London Times advertisement, the greeting is a siren song, beckoning us to delve further into the story.

Despite the popularity of von Arnim's 1922 novel about a transforming journey to Italy for four women, her story at first inspired only two films and a play that were soon forgotten. But in 1991, an English ...

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