The Caravaners by Elizabeth von Arnim audiobook.

Genre: comedy

In The Caravaners, Elizabeth von Arnim turns an Edwardian summer holiday into a razor-sharp comedy of manners, told entirely through the diary of Baron Otto von Ottringel, a retired Prussian officer with enormous pride and very little self-awareness. Hoping for a dignified anniversary adventure, Otto agrees to join a month-long caravanning tour through the English countryside, sharing horse-drawn living quarters with a mixed party of Germans and English acquaintances. His much younger wife, Edelgard, is delighted by the novelty and freedom of the open road, while Otto is appalled to discover that caravanning requires chopping wood, cooking meals, washing up, and walking beside a stubborn horse in whatever weather arrives. As the convoy rattles from village to village, Otto insists on discipline, rank, and proper behavior, only to be repeatedly undone by English informality, unexpected mishaps, and his own inflated assumptions. Along the way, he becomes fixated on a woman in the party, misreading every social cue, while Edelgard begins to find her voice among new friends. By letting Otto condemn himself in his own pompous prose, von Arnim delivers a witty, quietly fierce satire of class, marriage, and male authority.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:24:23) Chapter 02

(00:54:01) Chapter 03

(01:24:34) Chapter 04

(01:56:42) Chapter 05

(02:18:57) Chapter 06

(02:38:40) Chapter 07

(02:58:39) Chapter 08

(03:19:14) Chapter 09

(03:44:07) Chapter 10

(04:08:52) Chapter 11

(04:34:40) Chapter 12

(05:03:20) Chapter 13

(05:35:29) Chapter 14

(06:04:07) Chapter 15

(06:27:02) Chapter 16

(06:47:56) Chapter 17

(07:11:59) Chapter 18

(07:44:12) Chapter 19

(08:22:26) Chapter 20

(08:48:26) Chapter 21

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