The Enchanted April (Annotated)

Elizabeth von Arnim's The Enchanted April is a delicately comic novel of emotional renewal, set against the luminous Italian Riviera. Four English women, strangers joined by dissatisfaction, rent a medieval castle for a month and discover that beauty, leisure, and companionship unsettle the rigid patterns of their lives. Written in a lucid, ironic, and quietly lyrical style, the novel belongs to t...