Vera by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss are both reeling from recent unhappiness when they meet and swiftly fall in love. Lucy is Wemysss sweet girl, and to Lucy, Everard is the whole world. But it is not until the happy couple return home and begin their life of wedded bliss that Lucy really begins to wonder: what did happen to Vera?
A sinister thriller * Independent *
[Her books are] a revelation in their wit and.. dry, unsentimental treatment of the relationship between men and women -- Barbara Pym
Von Arnim didn't have much patience with the male ego, and she didn't have much more for the women who bowed beneath it -- Mike Newell, director of 'The Enchanted April'
[Her books are] a revelation in their wit and.. dry, unsentimental treatment of the relationship between men and women -- Barbara Pym
Von Arnim didn't have much patience with the male ego, and she didn't have much more for the women who bowed beneath it -- Mike Newell, director of 'The Enchanted April'
Elizabeth von Arnim was born on 31 August 1866 in Australia. She was cousin to the writer Katherine Mansfield. In 1890 she married her first husband, Count Henning August von Arnim-Schlagenthin, a Prussian aristocrat, with whom she had five children. Elizabeth and her German Garden, published anonymously in 1898, was a barely fictionalised account of Elizabeth’s life and the creation of her garden at the family home of Nassenheide in Pomerania, where Hugh Walpole and E. M. Forster were tutors to her children. Its instant success was followed by many more novels, including Vera (1921) and The Enchanted April (1922), and another almost-autobiography, All the Dogs of My Life (1936). She separated from Count von Arnim in 1908, and after his death two years later she built a house in Switzerland, marrying John Francis Stanley Russell in 1916. This marriage also ended in separation in 1919 when Elizabeth moved to America, where she died on 9 February 1941, aged 74.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781784872335 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784872334 |
| Title | Vera |
| Author | Elizabeth Von Arnim |
| Series | Vintage Classics Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2017-04-06 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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