The Solitary Summer (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

By Elizabeth von Arnim

Published a year after Elizabeth von Arnim's runaway bestseller Elizabeth and Her German Garden, The Solitary Summer wittily recounts one woman's effort to spend a summer away from social obligations to find herself. Set in the Prussian countryside where the Australian-born novelist lived for several years, the novel contains some of the most beguiling garden writing of all time. Shirking the duties of society hostess that are supposed to give her life direction and purpose, the narrator exults in the freedom inspired by a garden she tends with fierce and comic devotion, slyly evading those trying to contain her spirit. Charming, entertaining, and uplifting in celebrating a woman's claim to freedom without forsaking beauty, humor, and love, The Solitary Summer brims with the unmistakable energy of a gifted writer claiming time for her own soul.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HG4SD1ZH
• ISBN13: 9798902670643
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Warbler Classics
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"