Elizabeth Von Arnim Books In Order

Novels

  1. Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898)
  2. The Solitary Summer (1899)
  3. The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen (1904)
  4. The Princess Priscilla’s Fortnight (1905)
  5. Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther (1907)
  6. The Caravaners (1909)
  7. The Pastor’s Wife (1914)
  8. Christine (1917)
  9. Christopher and Columbus (1919)
  10. Vera (1921)
  11. The Enchanted April (1922)
  12. Love (1925)
  13. Introduction to Sally (1926)
  14. Expiation (1929)
  15. Father (1931)
  16. The Jasmine Farm (1935)
  17. Mr Skeffington (1940)

Non fiction

  1. All the Dogs of My Life (1936)

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Elizabeth Von Arnim Books Overview

Elizabeth and Her German Garden

‘May 7th. I love my garden. I am writing in it now in the late afternoon loveliness, much interrupted by the mosquitoes and the temptation to look at all the glories of the new green leaves washed half an hour ago in a cold shower. Two owls are perched near me, and are carrying on a long conversation that I enjoy as much as any warbling of nightingales. The gentleman owl says musical notes occur here in the printed text , and she answers from her tree a little way off, musical notes , beautifully assenting to and completing her lord’s remark, as becomes a properly constructed German she owl. They say the same thing over and over again so emphatically that I think it must be something nasty about me; but I shall not let myself be frightened away by the sarcasm of owls…

The Solitary Summer

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG May 2nd. Last night after dinner, when we were in the garden, I said, ‘I want to be alone for a whole summer, and get to the very dregs of life. I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow. Nobody shall be invited to stay with me, and if any one calls they will be told that I am out, or away, or sick. I shall spend the months in the garden, and on the plain, and in the forests. I shall watch the things that happen in my garden, and see where I have made mistakes. On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forests, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I’ll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me. Out there on the plain there is silence, and where there is silence I have discovered there is peace.’

The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen

This travel story is shot through with the Elizabeth von Arnim’s special self deprecating wit and character sketches. In 1901, the ‘real’ Elizabeth holidayed on the Baltic island of Rugen with just her maid, a coachman, a carriage piled with luggage, and a woman friend. But from such unpromising beginnings Elizabeth weaves a captivating farrago round her encounters. There’s the bishop’s wife and her personable son, a dressmaker and, astonishingly, a long lost cousin who is trying to evade the pursuit of her professor husband. Meanwhile, Elizabeth’s friend goes on knitting, and knitting, and knitting, in a travel story of great charm, wit, and perception.

The Princess Priscilla’s Fortnight

‘Oft habe ich die Welt durchwandert und habe immer gesehen wie das Grosse am Kleinlichen scheitert und das Edle von dem tzenden Gift des Allt glichen zerfressen wird.’ Fritzing: ‘Erlebtes und Erlittenes.’

Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther

This enchanting novel tells the story of the love affair between Rose Marie Schmidt and Roger Anstruther. A determined young woman of twenty five, Rose Marie is considered a spinster by the inhabitants of the small German town of Jena where she lives with her father, the Professor. To their homes comes Roger, an impoverished but well born young Englishman who wishes to learn German: Rose Marie and Roger fall in love. But the course of true love never did run smooth: distance, temperament and fortune divide them. We watch the ebb and flow of love between two very different people and see the witty and wonderful Rose Marie get exactly what she wants.

The Caravaners

BY THE AUTHOR OF ‘ELIZABETH AND HER GERMAN GARDEN’. Elizabeth Von Arnim 1866 1941

The Pastor’s Wife

A novel sparkling with von Arnim’s characteristic wit and irony With an afterword by Lisa St Aubin de Teran. Ingeborg Bullivant, the put upon daughter of the Bishop of Redchester, suddenly becomes possessed by the demon Rebellion 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. Faced with her father’s wrath on her return, however, Ingeborg accepts her Herr Dremmel with simple relief. But the role of a pastor’s wife in East Prussia is not as Ingeborg had imagined, for she has merely exchanged one set of rules for another…

Christine

Written under Pseudonym of Alice Cholmondeley

Christopher and Columbus

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Vera

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The Enchanted April

Enchanted April is a book for anyone who feels stiff, unloved, or used up a restful, funny, sumptuous, and invigorating vacation for the mind and soul. It begins one cold, rainy February afternoon soon after the end of World War I when Mrs. Arbuthnot and Mrs. Wilkins come across an advertiseme*nt for a villa in Italy to rent for the month of April. Mrs. Arbuthnot, with the ‘face of a patient and disappointed Madonna,’ and Mrs. Wilkins, ‘her clothes infested by thrift,’ barely know each other, yet the fantasy of a wisteria covered Italian villa sparks something in each and brings them together. They raid their meager nest eggs, find two more women the formidable Mrs. Fisher and the unspeakably lovely but bored Lady Caroline Dester to help defray costs, and set off for their dream of sunshine and beauty. At San Salvatore, remarkable changes occur. Mrs. Wilkins becomes Lotty intuitive, sensual, self confident; Mrs. Arbuthnot loses her religious self righteousness. Lady Caroline finds herself with ‘that really rather disgusting suspicion that her life till now had not only been loud but empty,’ while Mrs. Fisher starts to feel a ‘very odd and exciting sensation of going to come out all over buds.’ Elizabeth von Armin portrays these transformations in wickedly dry British humor interwoven with descriptions of the lush, soul stirring terrain of San Salvatore. The effect is refreshing, charming, and romantic.

Love

A gentle romance begins innocently enough in the stalls of a London theatre where Catherine is enjoying her ninth and Christopher his thirty sixth visit to the same play. He is a magnificent young man with flame coloured hair. She is the sweetest little thing in a hat. There is just one complication: Christopher is twenty five, while Catherine is just a little bit older. Flattered by the passionate attentions of youth, Catherine, with marriage and motherhood behind her, is at first circumspect, but finally succumbs to her lover’s charms. The engaging humour of this autobiographical novel blunts the bitter edge of irony in the hypocrisy of 1920s society.

Mr Skeffington

‘Beauty; beauty. What was the good of beauty, once it was over? It left nothing behind it but acid regrets, and no heart at all to start fresh.’ Approaching the watershed of her fiftieth birthday, Fanny, having long ago divorced Mr Skeffington and dismissed him from her thoughts for many years, is surprised to find herself thinking of him often. While attempting to understand this invasion, she meets, through a series of coincidences and deliberate actions, all those other men whose hearts she broke. But their lives have irrevocably changed and Fanny is no longer the exquisite beauty with whom they were all once enchanted. If she is to survive, Fanny discovers, she must confront a greatly altered perception of her self. With the delicate piquancy for which she is renowned, Elizabeth von Arnim here reveals the complexities involved in the process of ageing and in re evaluating self worth.

All the Dogs of My Life

‘A captivating in no way barking autobiography. Dogs take the leading role, but it is also about troublesome husbands, wonderful houses, a surprising life’ Observer First published in 1936, this is the story of Elizabeth von Arnim’s extraordinary life and her equally extraordinary dogs. From her Pomeranian idyll celebrated in her famous first book, ELIZABETH AND HER GERMAN GARDEN, to less happy days in London following the death of her first husband; from the beautiful solitude of her Swiss mountain hideaway, to the First World War and a disastrous second marriage, the author takes us on a disarmingly witty and poignangt journey of canine companionship.

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