Elizabeth von Arnim was born in Australia in 1866 and her family moved to England when she was young. Katherine Mansfield was her cousin and they exchanged letters and reviewed each other’s work. Von Arnim married twice and lived in Berlin, Poland, America, France and Switzerland, where she built a chalet to entertain her circle of literary friends, which included her lover, H. G. Wells. Von Arnim’s first novel, Elizabeth in Her German Garden, was semiautobiographical and a huge success on publication in 1898. The Enchanted April, published in 1922, is her most widely read novel and has been adapted numerous times for stage and screen. She died of influenza in 1941.
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The Enchanted April is a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, published in 1922, which follows four women from 1920s England who leave their unhappy marriages to go on holiday in Italy. The women are Mrs. Arbuthnot, Mrs. Wilkins, Lady Caroline Dester, and Mrs. Fisher. They find common ground in their desire to escape their rainy, grey environments and take on the expenses of renting a small medieval castle on the Mediterranean for the month of April. The novel explores their interpersonal tensions and eventual coming together at the castle, where they find rejuvenation in the tranquil beauty of their surroundings and rediscover hope and love. The Enchanted April has been adapted for the stage and screen multiple times, including as a Broadway play in 1925, a 1935 American feature film, and an Academy Award-nominated feature film in 1991.
Título : The Enchanted April: A Quick Read edition
EAN : 9782385820022
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