Return To Gone-Away
Written by Elizabeth Enright
Narrated by Colleen Delany
4.5/5
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Elizabeth Enright
Elizabeth Enright (1907-1968) was born in Oak Park, Illinois, but spent most of her life in or near New York City. Her mother was a magazine illustrator, while her father was a political cartoonist. Illustration was Enright's original career choice and she studied art in Greenwich, Connecticut; Paris, France; and New York City. After creating her first book in 1935, she developed a taste, and quickly demonstrated a talent, for writing. Throughout her life, she won many awards, including the 1939 John Newbery Medal for Thimble Summer and a 1958 Newbery Honor for Gone-Away Lake. Among her other beloved titles are her books about the Melendy family, including The Saturdays, published in 1941. Enright also wrote short stories for adults, and her work was published in The New Yorker, The Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, The Yale Review, Harper’s, and The Saturday Evening Post. She taught creative writing at Barnard College. Translated into many languages throughout the world, Elizabeth Enright's stories are for both the young and the young at heart.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Blakes buy the Villa Caprice, a forgotten vacation house, from the state and bring it back from disrepair.Cute but not as fun as the first. House-cleaning is not as fun as poking around in a swamp.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It was a good book for families to listen to
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I’m currently working threw this book and I have to say it’s starting to be my favorite. The book is very interesting and makes me wonder about the past of gone away lake
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another MAJOR nostalgia read. It’s been awhile for this one and I felt like I was seeing old friends again after a long absence. Uncle Pin and Aunt Minniehaha! Villa Caprice! Othello! [Nov. 2008]
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I love this book! It is so interesting even as an adult.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This sequel isn’t nearly as good as Gone-Away Lake: there is even less plot, and it’s much less story than it is literary HGTV/Antiques Roadshow. But the characters and settings are still charming. There are depictions of the younger children “playing Indians” that are not respectful to say the least, plus Enright’s usually fatphobia. I would be sure to have critical conversations about these things with any children reading the book. But it’s honestly not a great read for anyone but a diehard Enright fan.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A continuation of a great book. To be able not just to find these houses, but to actually get to live in one... I'm fairly sure this is where my dream of buying an old Victorian fixer-upper came from. Definitely a classic that I plan on sharing with my own children someday.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Blakes buy the Villa Caprice, a forgotten vacation house, from the state and bring it back from disrepair.Cute but not as fun as the first. House-cleaning is not as fun as poking around in a swamp.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I read this book during a summer reading program when I was a child. After all the years, I couldn't remember the name, and then I found it on a website, and immediately reserved them at my public library. My 10 year old LOVED them!