Elizabeth Von Arnim

It began in a women's club in London on a February afternoon....

Four very diverse women, all seeking revitalization and escape from the dreary February rains of 1920s London, rent the small medieval castle of San Salvatore, nestled high above the bay of Portofino, Italy. Arriving at San Salvatore, they find it awash with the scent of flowers, its olive...

An advertisement for a "Small medieaval Italian Castle to be Let" sparks something long dormant in the reluctant hearts of two downcast London women - the possibility of happiness....

Published in 1899, The Solitary Summer is a charming companion to von Arnim’s earlier novel Elizabeth and Her German Garden. As with its prequel, the novel is semi-autobiographical and in the form of a series of diary entries.

Ingebor Bullivant, the put-upon daughter of the Bishop of Redchester, suddenly rebels and takes a week's tour to Lucerne. Constantly in the company of a ponderous German pastor, she is put into a quandary when he proposes marriage.

"The Enchanted April" is Elizabeth von Arnim best-known novel, a beloved story of transformation, friendship, and the rejuvenating power of nature.

Lucy Entwhistle's beloved father has just died; aged twenty-two she finds herself alone in the world. Leaning against her garden gate, dazed and unhappy, she is disturbed by the sudden appearance of the perspiring Mr Wemyss.

The Caravaners, a comic novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, describes an Edwardian caravan holiday in the English county of Kent from the viewpoint of the pompous and self-important Baron Otto von Ottringel, a major in the German army.

A gentle romance begins innocently enough in the stalls of a London theatre....

When her husband is suddenly killed in a car accident, the widowed Milly Bott is surprised to find that he has left her only a small fraction of his wealth, bequeathing the rest to a charity for fallen women, with the cryptic note that ‘my wife will know why’.

Four very different English ladies, strangers to one another, rent a villa for a month near Portofino....

Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther is a novella written by Elizabeth von Arnim. Published in 1907, the story revolves around the correspondence between two main characters, Fräulein Rose-Marie Schmidt, a spinster in her late 30s, and Mr. Henry Anstruther, a kind and sympathetic stranger,.

Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a semi-autobiographical novel about the joy that the protagonist finds in the delights of her Pomeranian garden, which provides relief from the stifling environment of her household....

Lured by the Mediterranean spring, the violet mountains, sweet-scented flowers, and an idyllic small Italian seaport, four truly diverse Englishwomen rent an Italian castle for the month of April....

Sally, "imprigionata nella sua bellezza", un povero angelo catapultato dal suo mondo di pochi pensieri e di linguaggio sgrammaticato e rudimentale in un modo sconosciuto di cui non conosce parole o comportamenti, e in cui tutti non fanno che fissarla, corteggiarla, desiderarla...

L'autrice, riscoperta recentemente dalla letteratura di genere, non ha mai pubblicato, in vita, questo romanzo, che fu scoperto dall'editore fra le sue carte...

Титулованная красавица Франсес (Фанни) вынуждена выйти за богатого бизнесмена Джоба Скеффингтона. Этот мезальянс вызывает всеобщее возмущение светского...

London in den 20er Jahren: Vier höchst unterschiedliche englische Damen entfliehen dem tristen Alltag...

Der Gärtner ist seit einem Jahr hier und hat mir regelmäßig gekündigt, bis jetzt ist er aber zum Bleiben bewegt worden. Ich glaube nicht, daß er viel...

Uno scandalo incombe sulla famiglia Bott: il povero Ernest, appena deceduto in un incidente stradale, ha diseredato la moglie Milly...