Elizabeth Von Arnim

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books
  • First Book:
    December 1987
  • Latest Book:
    January 2022
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Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • The Pastor's Wife

    Each book in the "Everyman" series has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, chronology of life and times of the author, plot summary, annotated reading list and critical response....

  • The Caravaneers

    This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book t...

  • The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen

    In 1901 the 'real' Elizabeth holidayed on the Baltic island of Rgen with just her maid, a coachman, a carriage piled with luggage, and a woman friend. From such unpromising beginnings Elizabeth weaves a captivating farrago around her encounters. The...

  • The Enchanted April

    A discrete advertisement in The Times, addressed to "those who appreciate wisteria and sunshine," is the prelude to a revelatory month for four very different women. High above a bay on the Italian Riviera stands the medieval castle San Salvatore. Be...

  • Love

    Attending a London production of The Immortal Hour, Catherine, a widow in her forties, encounters the handsome young Christopher, and their unlikely romance scandalizes their friends and families. Reprint....

  • Vera

    Made vulnerable by her father's sudden death, Lucy finds her life taken over by lonely widower Everard Wemyss, who wants to marry her, but Lucy's Aunt Dot warns her about Wemyss's suspicious qualities. Reprint....

  • 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 dism...

  • The Solitary Summer

    This delightful companion to the famous Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a witty, lyrical account of a rejuvenating summer. Descriptions of magnificent larkspurs and burning nasturtiums give way to those of cooling forest walks, and of clambering u...

  • The Caravaners

    Dear Husband, she said, actually imitating me. I know what you are going to say. I always know what you are going to say. I know all the things you ever can or ever do say. She paused for a moment, and then added in a firm voice, looking me straig...



  • The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight

    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

  • Christopher and Columbus

    As the First World War looms, Anna-Rose and Anna-Felicitas, seventeen-year-old orphan twins, are thrust upon relatives. But Uncle Arthur, a blustering patriot, is a reluctant guardian: the twins are half-German and, who knows, they could be spying fr...

  • Christine

    Christine, a glorious novel by the incomparable Elizabeth von Arnim, is well worth purchasing as a great read; or as part of any serious collector's literary collection. Consistent with all of Elizabeth Von Arnim's books, Christine's vision of the hu...

  • Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther

    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 Schmid...

  • In the Mountains

    Excerpt from the opening lines: "I want to be quiet now. I crawled up here this morning from the valley like a sick ant, -struggled up to the little house on the mountain side that I haven't seen since the first August of the war, and dropped down on...

  • I Love a Good Love Story

    Here is a collection of passionate, compelling love stories for you to enjoy. Firstly we have The Lost Girl by D.H. Lawrence. A writer of great insight and passions he brings to us a heroine determined to follow her dreams against the wishes and plan...

  • The Willows - Before Rebecca there was Vera

    The Willows - Before Rebecca - There Was VeraBy Elizabeth von ArnimNaive and beautiful Lucy Edinburough is charmed and swept into a marriage of love and lust by the widower, Edverd Westminster whom she meets when he is grieving over his dead wife.His...

  • Miss Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther

    Dear Roger, -- This is only to tell you that I love you, supposing you should have forgotten it by the time you get to London. The letter will follow you by the train after the one you left by, and you will have it with your breakfast the day after t...

  • Fraulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther

    Excerpt from opening lines: "Dear Roger, -This is only to tell you that I love you, supposing you should have forgotten it by the time you get to London. The letter will follow you by the train after the one you left by, and you will have it with you...

  • Elizabeth and Her German Garden, and the Enchanted April

    "Elizabeth and her German Garden" is the first book by Marie Annette Beauchamp-known all her life as "Elizabeth." The semi-autobiographical book, anonymously published, under the name Elizabeth, was an incredible success, going through printing after...



  • Elizabeth and Her German

    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 perche...

  • Fraulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther, Novel by Elizabeth Von Arnim

    Elizabeth von Arnim (31 August 1866 - 9 February 1941), born Mary Annette Beauchamp, was an Australian-born British novelist. By marriage she became Grafin (Countess) von Arnim-Schlagenthin, and by a second marriage, Countess Russell. Although known ...

  • Elizabeth and Her German Garden, by Elizabeth Von Arnim

    "Elizabeth and Her German Garden," a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, was popular and frequently reprinted during the early years of the 20th century. "Elizabeth and Her German Garden" is a year's diary written by Elizabeth about her experiences learnin...

  • Mr. Skeffington
  • Father

  • The Enchanted April [Annotated]
  • The Benefactress

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    Excerpt from Chapter I: When Anna Estcourt was twenty-five, and had begun to wonder whether the pleasure extractable from life at all counterbalanced the bother of it, a wonderful thing happened. She was an exceedingly pretty girl, who ought to have ...

  • Elizabeth and Her German Garden

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    ' " 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 child...

  • The Ordeal of Elizabeth

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    Chapter 1.The Van Vorst Homestead stands close to the road-side; a dark, low-built, gloomy old place. The horse-shoe on the door, testifies to its age, and the devout superstition of the Van Vorst who built it. However effectual against witches, the ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Elizabeth Von Arnim has published 28 books.

Elizabeth Von Arnim does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Enchanted April [Annotated], was published in January 2022.

The first book by Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Pastor's Wife, was published in December 1987.

No. Elizabeth Von Arnim does not write books in series.
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