Vera (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Softcover

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“Distinctly a triumph."
—Rebecca West, New Statesman

"Extraordinarily good...I admired the end most."
—Katherine Mansfield

An immediate bestseller when it was first published in 1921 by the famous author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden and The Enchanted April, this brilliant dissection of a marriage gone terribly wrong is also a cautionary tale for anyone tempted to abandon their principles in the name of loyalty and love. Based on von Arnim’s disastrous marriage to the 2nd Earl Russell, the brother of philosopher Bertrand Russell, this haunting tale of a woman gaslit by her despotic husband anticipates the plot of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, later an Academy Award-winning film by Alfred Hitchcock.

Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941) was an Australian-born writer who spent her life in Great Britain and Europe. After her marriage to a German count and raising five children, she married the 2nd Earl Russell. The cousin of Katherine Mansfield, von Arnim was a member of a literary circle that included Hugh Walpole, E. M. Forster, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and George Santayana. Von Arnim published more than twenty enormously successful books by the time of her death in 1941.

Ulrich Baer is University Professor at New York University, a graduate of Harvard and Yale, and the recipient of Guggenheim, Getty, and Humboldt fellowships. He has published widely on poetry, fiction, photography, and written new introductions to many classic books.

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