by Elizabeth von Arnim · Insel Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783458338147
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«Ein Chalet in den Bergen» is the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, published by Insel Verlag GmbH in paperback (256 pages, in German).
After five years in London, marked by war and the loss of friends, the narrator returns to her chalet in the Swiss Alps, where time seems to stand still. The arrival of two lost hikers disrupts her seclusion and leads to unexpected encounters and situations, while the mountain summer exerts its restorative effect.
Translation from English by Angelika Beck; number 2114 in the insel taschenbuch series. The original novel, «In the Mountains», was published in 1920.
A read for those seeking a classic European novel with a mountainous atmosphere, introspection, and female characters.
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.
