Enchanted Barn [Hardcover]

Grace Livingston Hill (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 3, 2011 | ISBN-10: 089190039X | ISBN-13: 978-0891900399

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Amereon Ltd (June 3, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 089190039X
• ISBN-13: 978-0891900399
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,596,432 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy from this supplier!, March 5, 2008

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Suzi "Suzi" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Enchanted Barn (Paperback)

This is not a true copyrighted version of The Enchanted Barn. It is scanned and copied. There are many, many missing pages and the last several pages of the book are not included!!! How does it end? If you care, don't buy from this supplier.
Absolutely appalling that this lousy copy would make its way to Amazon!

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Enchanted Barn, July 9, 2001

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"kcowles863" (Ashburn, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Enchanted Barn (Hardcover)

This is the first GLH book I ever read and it remains my favorite, after having read most of the others. Again, we have a poor family--father deceased, mother very ill, numerous children--being taken care of by the oldest daughter on her small stenographer's salary. The dilemma is that their cheap rented house is about to be torn down so they must move in a few weeks. But how can they do this without money? Taking her only savings (10 cents), the oldest daughter takes advantage of an unexpected afternoon off from work to ride the train out to the country in the faint hope of finding something suitable and affordable. Once well out in the country, she overhears a conversation between other travelers about a barn in sight from the train tracks, and decides to get a closer look. Impossible though it seems to her at first, the lovely setting seems to be just what is needed to regain her mother's health and provide the children with space to play outdoors. Quickly tracking down the owner, she meets with his handsome son and timidly proposes the rental of the barn for their home. He is immediately sensitive to her dignity and hesitancy and need, and goes out of his way to help her and her family. The description of the barn remodeling is fun, with several side stories and characters. The romance is slow in developing, but results in the usual GLH happy ending.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I'm sorry I didn't read the reviews before buying., April 17, 2010

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Betty Campbell "Betty" (CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Enchanted Barn (Kindle Edition)

I love the Grace Livingston Hill books. The woman says things in books that I've never ever heard anyone talking about. I love her boldness. I own two shelves of her books. If I heard of any more of them, I'd buy them in a heartbeat. But not this edition. I was so disappointed with all the rotten work that whoever put into it to get it into digital shape. I even wrote a letter to Amazon to complain. They sent me back a letter telling me to write them a letter, noting each page and line position telling them what the type actually said, and what it should be changed to. (I may not be remembering accurately here...but it was something "like" that. So I began to read the enchanted barn story all over again. I made many notations. But then I suddenly realized that my job is not as an editor. I am not a typesetter. All I am is a customer. Phooey on them!

I thought by putting it on my Kindle that I was in seventh heaven. Putting my favorite author into a format that was easy to read and to have always in good condition without having to be concerned with the pages coming out of the spine. Or old paper being fragile.

But this book? Lousy. thank you. It is not the author. I repeat: it is not the author. It just makes me super sad that whoever did such a bad job on the book actually got paid good money for doing it. Amazon, you took an excellent book and allowed somebody to really do a very poor job of making it digital.

I suggest that you go ahead and spend the money and buy an actual paper book. Then when it gets old, and the pages start falling out, just buy another paper book. I am quite tolerant of bad typesetting. But when it happens up to several times a page....I'm done with it. This is bad.