by Elizabeth von Arnim · VIRAGO PRESS LTD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780860689416
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«Love» is the romantic novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, published by Virago Press Ltd in paperback (420 pages, in English).
Catherine meets Christopher, a young red-haired man of twenty-five, at a London theater. The attraction is mutual, but the age difference —she is around fifty— complicates the courtship. With sharp humor, the novel portrays the hypocrisy of 1920s society and the codes women had to obey in the name of love.
The book belongs to the Virago Modern Classics collection, where it is number 241. The novel was originally published in 1925.
For readers seeking a classic romantic novel with irony and social observation, set in 1920s London.
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.
