The Solitary Summer

Name: The Solitary Summer
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Elizabeth Von Arnim
ISBN: 9781853815539

Elizabeth Von Arnim

06/07/2000
Virago Press Ltd

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Solitary Summer par Elizabeth Von Arnim

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur 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 up the mud bank when the miller is not in view. Rainy days prompt a little philanthropy, until the sun returns the gardener to the refuge of her beloved plants. Yet the months are not as solitary as she'd planned: there's the Man of Wrath to pacify and the April, May and June babies to amuse. Here, with the pleasing astringency for which she is noted, Elizabeth von Arnim returns to the heroine and the garden she immortalised. Biographie de l'auteur Elizabeth von Arnim was born in 1866 in Sydney, Australia, and brought up in England. She lived much of her life in Switzerland, where she entertained such guests as H.G. Wells (with whom she had an affair) and Katherine Mansfield, her cousin.