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The Enchanted April
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  • Published: 2 June 2015
  • ISBN: 9780698408296
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

The Enchanted April

Formats & editions
Paperback
31 Jan 2023
Paperback
1 Sept 2015
Paperback
12 June 2012
Hardback
28 Apr 2026
Hardback
6 June 2023
EBook
9 July 2015
EBook
2 June 2015
EBook
2 July 2012
EBook
13 Apr 2011
Audiobook
15 Apr 2021
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15 Jan 2017
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VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.

The charming, slyly comic novel of romantic longing and transformation that inspired the Oscar-nominated film

Four very different women escape the monotony of dreary London for the sunshine of Italy in a medieval castle on the Mediterranean. As each blossoms in the warmth of the Italian spring, they encounter unexpected friendship, personal growth, and heartwarming romance.

An immediate bestseller upon its first publication in 1922, The Enchanted April set off a craze for tourism to the Italian Riviera that continues today. This witty ensemble piece explores new beginnings, happiness, and the power of nature.

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  • Published: 2 June 2015
  • ISBN: 9780698408296
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240
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About the author

Elizabeth Von Arnim

Elizabeth von Arnim was born on 31 August 1866 in Australia. She was cousin to the writer Katherine Mansfield. In 1890 she married her first husband, Count Henning August von Arnim-Schlagenthin, a Prussian aristocrat, with whom she had five children. Elizabeth and her German Garden, published anonymously in 1898, was a barely fictionalised account of Elizabeth’s life and the creation of her garden at the family home of Nassenheide in Pomerania, where Hugh Walpole and E. M. Forster were tutors to her children. Its instant success was followed by many more novels, including Vera (1921) and The Enchanted April (1922), and another almost-autobiography, All the Dogs of My Life (1936). She separated from Count von Arnim in 1908, and after his death two years later she built a house in Switzerland, marrying John Francis Stanley Russell in 1916. This marriage also ended in separation in 1919 when Elizabeth moved to America, where she died on 9 February 1941, aged 74.

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Praise for The Enchanted April

"This delicious confection will work its magic on all." --Daily Telegraph (London)

"Extraordinarily well-written . . . It is witty, human, often very beautiful." --Punch

"Brims with magic and laughter." --The Guardian (London)

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