by Elizabeth von Arnim · Little, Brown Book Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853815539
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«The Solitary Summer» is the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, published by Little, Brown Book Group in paperback (190 pages, in English).
The narrative, in diary form, follows a woman who wishes to spend a summer in solitude in the German countryside to devote herself to rest and the garden. Amid observations of flowers and walks through the woods, she reflects on life and family while trying to dodge visits and social obligations, with the humor and irony characteristic of the author.
The work is part of Virago Modern Classics (number 430) and complements the author's previous novel, «Elizabeth and Her German Garden», returning to its protagonist and the garden setting.
Elizabeth von Arnim, born Mary Annette Beauchamp, was an English novelist. Born in Australia, she married a German aristocrat, and her earliest works are set in Germany. Her first marriage made her Countess von Arnim-Schlagenthin and her second Elizabeth Russell, Countess Russell. After her first husband's death, she had a three-year affair with the writer H. G. Wells, then later married Frank Russell, elder brother of the Nobel Prize-winner and philosopher Bertrand Russell. She was a cousin of the New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield. Though known in early life as May, her first book introduced her to readers as Elizabeth, which she eventually became to friends and finally to family.
