Elizabeth Von Arnim
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The four women at the center of The Enchanted April are alike only in their dissatisfaction with their everyday lives. They find each other--and the castle of their dreams--through a classified ad in a London newspaper one rainy February afternoon. The ladies expect a pleasant holiday, but they don't anticipate that the month they spend in Portofino will reintroduce them to their true natures and reacquaint them with joy.
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This semi-autobiographical book is about the life of a young English woman who marries an ageing German aristocrat and in the marriage she focuses on her garden and children, at the same time running a country house. She also writes down her observations of the stuffy German aristocratic set using her razor sharp wit. Von Arnim was a successful author in her time and deserves to be re-discovered, this novel is a gem. In the first year of publication...
3) Love
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Romance between a middle-aged widow and a younger man scandalizes 1920s London society in this classic novel by the author of The Enchanted April.
Although they thoroughly enjoy watching performances of The Immortal Hour, it is no longer the sole reason Catherine and Christopher continue returning to the theater in King's Cross. On Catherine's ninth visit, and Christopher's thirty-sixth, the two theater lovers finally strike up a conversation,...
4) Vera
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A foreboding and darkly comic period thriller considered the inspiration for du Maurier's Rebecca, Vera is a deftly plotted masterpiece woven with intrigue When Lucy Entwhistle's father dies suddenly, she is left alone in the world struggling to find her place in life. But on the very same day she happens to meet the recently widowed Everard Wemyss. Their shared grief brings them together as they find in each other someone to talk to and in...
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The Enchanted April is a delightful and enchanting novel that takes readers on a journey to the sun-drenched beauty of the Italian Riviera. Elizabeth von Arnim weaves a captivating tale of four women who, feeling trapped in the dreariness of their lives, decide to escape to a secluded castle on the Mediterranean coast. The story unfolds as the characters embark on this transformative journey, discovering the transformative power of friendship, love,...
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Elizabeth von Arnim, born Mary Annette Beauchamp, was an English novelist. Born in Australia, she married a German aristocrat, and her earliest works are set in Germany. Arnim launched her career as a writer with her satirical and semi-autobiographical Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Published anonymously, it chronicled the protagonist Elizabeth's struggles to create a garden on the family estate and her attempts to integrate into German aristocratic...
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A handsome stranger enters Lucy Entwhistle's life on the very day of her father's death. Everard Wemyss is mourning the recent loss of his wife, and he and Lucy are drawn together in their shared experience of grief. A remarkable bond forms between the despairing couple, the thought of separation proves intolerable, and they are quickly married and settled into Everard's isolated country home, The Willows. But everything about the mansion is shadowed...
8) Expiación
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De la autora de Vera.
«¿Eran cálidos todos los comienzos? ¿Eran todos los finales sombríos y tristes?»
Todo el mundo adora a Milly, la mujer de Ernest Bott. Y es que es la esposa ideal: encantadora, amable, dulce y complaciente, nunca ha dado ningún problema a su marido ni ha provocado ninguna habladuría. Para la admiración de sus cuñados y envidia de sus cuñadas, Milly es una pieza perfecta en la orgullosa familia Bott, que valora por...
9) Father
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Since her mother's death, Jennifer has devoted years of her life to her father, managing the family home and acting as his secretary. After the sudden announcement that her father has married again, Jennifer, at 33, seizes the opportunity to lead an independent life. Quickly she secures the lease of Rose Cottage and turns her attention to her own needs and interests.
10) Vera
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La joven e inocente Lucy Entwhistle acaba de perder a su padre -hasta el momento, su única compañía- cuando conoce por casualidad al viudo Everard Wemyss. Maduro, atento y caballeroso, Wemyss la protege y la guía como solía hacerlo su padre. Cuando pasados unos días le pide matrimonio, Lucy, confundida y desamparada, acepta. Sin embargo, una sombra creciente empaña su felicidad: el fantasma de Vera, la primera esposa de Wemyss, que falleció...
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2023
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The Enchanted April is a 1922 novel by British writer Elizabeth von Arnim. The work was inspired by a month-long holiday to the Italian Riviera, probably the most widely read (as an English and American best seller in 1923) and perhaps the lightest and most ebullient of her novels. Von Arnim wrote, and set, the book in the 15th-century Castello Brown in Portofino, Italy.
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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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2024
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English
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This is a Project Gutenberg edition released on 2010.
This travel story is shot through with the Elizabeth von Arnim's special self-deprecating wit and character sketches. In 1901, the "real" Elizabeth holidayed on the Baltic island of Rügen with just her maid, a coachman, a carriage piled with luggage, and a woman friend. But from such unpromising beginnings Elizabeth weaves a captivating farrago round her encounters. There's the bishop's wife and...
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2023
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Solitary Summer is a short book about a woman's desire to spend one summer alone in her garden, inviting no one to visit, being able to enjoy her garden, her family, and herself for the whole summer. Her husband, whom she calls the Man of Wrath, doubted she would be happy, thought she would be dull. (From GoodReads)
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2023
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Solitary Summer is a short book about a woman's desire to spend one summer alone in her garden, inviting no one to visit, being able to enjoy her garden, her family, and herself for the whole summer. Her husband, whom she calls the Man of Wrath, doubted she would be happy, thought she would be dull. (From GoodReads)
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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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This is a Project Gutenberg edition released on 2010.
This travel story is shot through with the Elizabeth von Arnim's special self-deprecating wit and character sketches. In 1901, the "real" Elizabeth holidayed on the Baltic island of Rügen with just her maid, a coachman, a carriage piled with luggage, and a woman friend. But from such unpromising beginnings Elizabeth weaves a captivating farrago round her encounters. There's the bishop's wife and...
16) The caravaners
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Elizabeth von Arnim's eighth novel is a sharp contrast to the sunny optimism of her first best-seller Elizabeth and her German Garden (1898) and her later hit The Enchanted April (1922, adapted several times for screen and stage, including the 1991 film). The Caravaners (1909) is a devastating comedy about an Edwardian caravan holiday in Kent, narrated by the pompous and self-important Baron, a Prussian Major in the German army.
His narrative of pained...
