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Four women rent a chateau on a remote Italian island to try to come to grips with their lives and relationships. They explore the differences in their personalities, reassess their goals, and reexamine their relationships in a sisterly fashion. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

Four women rent a chateau on a remote Italian island to try to come to grips with their lives and relationships. They explore the differences in their personalities, reassess their goals, and reexamine their relationships in a sisterly fashion. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

Four women rent a chateau on a remote Italian island to try to come to grips with their lives and relationships. They explore the differences in their personalities, reassess their goals, and reexamine their relationships in a sisterly fashion. Newly designed and typeset for easy reading by Boomer Books.

Hailed as "one of the three finest wits of her day, " the Countess Elizabeth von Arnim cemented her literary reputation with this companion work to her extraordinarily popular first novel, the semi-autobiographical Elizabeth and Her German Garden (also available from Cosimo Classics). First published in 1899, this is a proto-feminist account of one woman's attempt to carve out of a space of her own-away from the husband she only half jokingly ...

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Elizabeth von Armin (1866 ù 1941) was born in Australia and grew up in England. After marrying a German count and moving to his estate she began writing childrenZs books. From the first paragraph Elizabeth Von Amim has her readers embracing the two little girls starting out on the adventure of their lives. ôTheir names were really Anna-Rose and Anna-Felicitas, but they decided, as they sat huddled together in a corner of the second-class deck ...

A young lady runs away to England from the 'blatant vulgarity' of her South European palace

Elizabeth von Arnim (1866-1941), born Mary Annette Beauchamp, was an Australian born British novelist. By marriage she became Gräfin (Countess) von Arnim- Schlagenthin, and by a second marriage, Countess Russell. Although known in her early life as May, "after the publication of her first book, she was known to her readers, eventually to her friends, and finally even to her family as Elizabeth. " and she is now invariably referred to as Elizab...

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In diesem berühmten Reiseroman veröffentlichte Elizabeth von Arnim ihre hinreißenden Erlebnisse und bezaubernden Naturbeobachtungen auf der Insel Rügen. Mit ihrem unvergleichlichen Erzähltalent entwirft sie ein prächtiges Bild der »Perle der Ostsee« und lädt zu einer kurzweiligen Wanderung über die Insel ein. Stationen der Reise sind: Von Stralsund geht es über Miltzow und Lauterbach nach Göhren und Thiessow, von dort über Sellin nach Binz. Wi...

Elizabeth von Arnim geht in ihrem Roman Vera mit der Institution »Ehe« hart ins Gericht und zieht respektlos wie humorvoll über Ehemänner her.

Berlin, Sommer 1914: Die begabte junge Engländerin Christine ist für ein Jahr zur Ausbildung bei einem berühmten Geigenvirtuosen. Nach den Schüssen von Sarajevo verwandelt sich die Hauptstadt über Nacht in einen Hexenkessel hemmungsloser Kriegsbegeisterung. Für Christine wird der Aufenthalt in Berlin zum Alptraum.