by Elizabeth von Arnim · Viena · tapa dura · ISBN 9788419474353
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Shortly after her father's death, Lucy, a young Englishwoman on holiday in Cornwall, meets Mr. Wemyss, a widower twice her age who helps her settle her new life as if he were an older brother or a trusted relative. Innocent and vulnerable, she begins to spend time with him and, feeling he is her soulmate, soon agrees to marry him. However, once at his home, everything is haunted by the memory of Vera, his first wife, whose mysterious death remains unexplained. A classic of psychological suspense and a precursor to Rebecca, this novel explores the darker side of marriage.
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.
