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Vera

Elizabeth von Arnim

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Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim is a black comedy based on her disastrous second marriage to Earl Russell: a mordant analysis of the romantic delusions through which wives acquiesce in husbands' tyrannies. In outline the story of this utterly unromantic novel anticipates DuMaurier's Rebecca. Naive Lucy Entwhistle is swept into marriage by widower, Everard Wemyss. His mansion "The Willows" is pervaded by the spectre of his dead wife Vera, with whom Lucy becomes obsessed. ... Here the servants are partisan for both wives, and lose no opportunity to disrupt Everard's unctuous, oppressive household routines. An extraordinarily black vision of marriage, also continuously funny, the novel's power lies in the wit and economy of the usually prolix Von Arnim.(Introduction by Wikipedia)

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Jim. And if Mr. Wemyss could bear the loss of his wife to the extent of grey trousers, how was it he couldn't bear Jim's name so much as mentioned? Whenever the talk got on to Jim—it couldn't be kept off him in a circle composed of his daughter and his sister and his friend—she noticed that Mr. Wemyss went silent. She would have taken this for excess of sensibility and the sign of a deep capacity for faithful devotion if it hadn't been for those trousers. Faced by them, it perplexed her.

While Miss Entwhistle was thinking like this and observing Wemyss, who never observed her at all after a first moment of surprise that she should look and behave so differently from the liquid lady of the cottage in Cornwall, that she should sit so straight and move so briskly, he and Lucy were, though present in the body, absent in love. Round them was drawn that magic circle through which nobody and nothing can penetrate, and within it they sat hand in hand and. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Es curioso, esta es una historia de terror que no está narrada como una historia de terror. Pero es terrorífica. Mientras "Rebeca" o "Cumbres borrascosas" se valen de su atmósfera ("Rebeca" es, al fin y al cabo y en esencia, una novela de misterio o terror gótico), "Vera" está escrito con el estilo

Me ha vuelto a suceder, he vuelto a caer rendida ante una obra olvidada que jamás obtuvo la fama que realmente merece. «Vera» de Elizabeth Von Arnim fue publicada en 1921, basándose en algunas de sus vivencias, la autora creó una narración sublime que serviría de inspiración para Daphne du Maurier a

If I could give 10 stars to this book I would. That’s how much I like it. I hope I convince a few of my GR friends to put it on their TBR list. It reminds me of the movie “Gaslight” from 1944 starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Angela Lansbury, and Joseph Cotton. It has also been compared to Reb

Elizabeth von Arnim was Katherine Mansfield's cousin. When this was published they were neighbours in the Swiss Alps. This novel caused a scandal as the obnoxious central male character was widely recognised as a portrait of Earl Russell, Elizabeth's first husband and the brother of the philosopher

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