An illustrated collection of sixty-eight traditional and original nursery rhymes from various sources. (learn more about this book)
Four women rent a chateau on a remote Italian island to try to come to grips with their lives and relationships. They explore the differences in their personalities, reassess their goals and reexamine their relationships in a sisterly fashion. (learn more about this book)
Work from the successful late 19th Century British novelist and member of the German nobility. (learn more about this book)
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - May 2nd. - Last night after dinner, when we were in the garden, I said, "I want to be alone for a whole summer, and get to the... (learn more about this book)
First published in 1936, this is the story of Elizabeth von Arnim's extraordinary life and her equally extraordinary dogs. From her Pomeranian idyll (celebrated in her famous first novel Elizabeth and Her German Garden ) to less happy days in London following the death of her first husband,... (learn more about this book)
Ingeborg Bullivant decides spontaneously to join a tour to Lucerne-and returns engaged. Yet her new life as a rural Prussian pastor's wife restricts her as much as her old; and when the dashing artist Ingram appears, musing about wondrous Italy, wanderlust tempts her a second time. Von... (learn more about this book)
Take a tour of a beautiful Baltic island with our very funny guide Elizabeth. Enjoy her glowing descriptions of the countryside and her barbed comments about her fellow travelers. Five 90-minute cassettes. (learn more about this book)
Attending a London production of The Immortal Hour, Catherine, a widow in her forties, encounters the handsome young Christopher, and their unlikely romance scandalizes their friends and families. Reprint. (learn more about this book)
The gorgeous motion picture Enchanted April, based on Elizabeth von Arnim's witty and endearing novel, captivated audiences nationwide. "If you liked A Room with a View and Howards End, you'll fall in love with Enchanted April!" raved Jeff Craig of Sixty Second Preview, and literate... (learn more about this book)
Approaching the watershed of her fiftieth birthday, Fanny, having long ago divorced Mr. Skeffington and dismissed him from her thoughts, is surprised to find herself thinking of him. While attempting to understand this unwelcome invasion, she meets, through a series of coincidences and deliberate... (learn more about this book)