by Elizabeth von Arnim · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420416854
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«Abril encantado» is the British humor novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, published by Alfaguara in paperback (296 pages, in Spanish).
Four English women, tired of routine, rent through an advertisement a small medieval Italian castle to spend the month of April there. In the Mediterranean spring, amid conversations and new experiences, they discover nuances of their sensibility that monotony had hidden from them, and their lives begin to change.
Translation by Beatriz García Ríos. Work originally published in 1922 as The Enchanted April.
For readers of British comedy and romantic fiction, especially those seeking twentieth-century classics.
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.
