Mr. Skeffington
Un element nouveau inquiete lady Skeffington: elle ne parvient pas a chasser de son esprit le souvenir soudain recurrent de son mari dont elle a pourtant divorce depuis fort longtemps. C'est une situation sans issue que de tenter de faire disparaitre quelqu'un qui n'est pas la, soupire-t-elle. Ni ses anciens amants, sur qui elle cherchera a exercer une ultime seduction, ni meme une vieille dame, dont elle sollicitera en vain l'amitie, ne l'aideront a detruire le diagnostic infamant de son psychiatre: sa jeunesse et sa beaute se sont enfuies. Delicatesse de ton, nuances ironiques et humour acerbe, Elizabeth von Arnim, en depit de son nom allemand, est typiquement anglaise. Jean-Claude Le Covec, Figaro Magazine
FictionLiterary CollectionsEuropeanEnglish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
RELEASED2021
PUBLISHERSociete d'edition Les Belles lettres
LENGTH360
LANGUAGEFR
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. Her writings are ascribed to Elizabeth von Arnim. She used the pseudonym Alice Cholmondeley only for a novel, Christine, published in 1917. [Wikipedia]
Mr. Skeffington
Un element nouveau inquiete lady Skeffington: elle ne parvient pas a chasser de son esprit le souvenir soudain recurrent de son mari dont elle a pourtant divorce depuis fort longtemps. C'est une situation sans issue que de tenter de faire disparaitre quelqu'un qui n'est pas la, soupire-t-elle. Ni ses anciens amants, sur qui elle cherchera a exercer une ultime seduction, ni meme une vieille dame, dont elle sollicitera en vain l'amitie, ne l'aideront a detruire le diagnostic infamant de son psychiatre: sa jeunesse et sa beaute se sont enfuies. Delicatesse de ton, nuances ironiques et humour acerbe, Elizabeth von Arnim, en depit de son nom allemand, est typiquement anglaise. Jean-Claude Le Covec, Figaro Magazine
FictionLiterary CollectionsEuropeanEnglish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
RELEASED2021
PUBLISHERSociete d'edition Les Belles lettres
LENGTH360
LANGUAGEFR
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. Her writings are ascribed to Elizabeth von Arnim. She used the pseudonym Alice Cholmondeley only for a novel, Christine, published in 1917. [Wikipedia]
