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Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'"Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them" ' Taking respite from the Man of Wrath, her children and her stifling household, Elizabeth discovers that the pa ...Show more
Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Category: Fiction
Drawn by a promise of "wisteria and sunshine," four English ladies rent a medieval castle on the Italian Riviera. Although each is very different from the others in personality, all find common ground and renewed feelings of love and hopefulness amid the countryside's natural beauty. This bestselling ta ...Show more
Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther by Von Arnim Elizabeth
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
What on earth could have induced Mr. Anstruther to fall in love with Fraulein Schmidt? He is an eligible English bachelor from a good family with great expectations; she is the plain, poor, "spinster" daughter of a German scholar. But Rose-Marie Schmidt is also funny, intelligent, brave and gifted with ...Show more
The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Category: Fiction
Excerpt from the opening lines: Every one who has been to school and still remembers what he was taught there, knows that R gen is the biggest island Germany possesses, and that it lies in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Pomerania. Round this island I wished to walk this summer, but no one would walk wi ...Show more
The Caravaners by Elizabeth von Arnim
Category: Fiction
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 ab ...Show more
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Category: Fiction
"WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BRENDA BOWEN A notice in The Timesaddressed to 'Those Who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine' advertises a 'small medieval Italian Castle to be let for the month of April'. Four very different women take up the offer- Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, both fleeing unappreciative husb ...Show more
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Category: Classic Fiction
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithThe Enchanted April, Elizabeth von Arnim's brilliant, irrepressible novella, tells the tale of four very differ ...Show more
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Originally published in 1922, Elizabeth Von Arnim's The Enchanted April is a charming and light-hearted novel about unlikely female friendships and the power of a blissful escape. Complete & Unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classi ...Show more
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Deco
VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 'Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy' Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan- they will hav ...Show more