Elizabeth Von Arnim

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

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....

Four very diverse women, all seeking revitalization and escape...

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’.

When four women leave their drab lives behind to go on holiday in Italy, their lives are changed forever by the Mediterranean. As these women come together and learn more about themselves than they thought possible, they reveal their true personalities and the backdrops of their lives....

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...

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

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...

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...

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....

Outside Elizabeth can escape domestic routine, read favorite books, play with her three babies and garden to her heart's content....

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.

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

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....

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 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.

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

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,.