by Elizabeth von Arnim · Insel, Frankfurt · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783458334637
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«Die Reisegesellschaft» is Elizabeth von Arnim's humorous novel, published by Insel Verlag in paperback (371 pages, in German).
Baron von Ottringel wants to celebrate his twenty-five years of marriage, even though the honoree is dead. As a trip with his second wife proves costly, he accepts a widowed neighbor's invitation to tour southern England by caravan. The narrative follows the Prussian junker, who criticizes almost everything and stumbles over his own narrow-mindedness.
The novel was originally published in English in 1909 as The Caravaners; this German edition uses Angelika Beck's translation and belongs to Insel-Taschenbuch (no. 1763).
A period satire for readers of classic fiction, humor and travel literature.
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.
