Faith. Arnim E. von

The creator of the delightful “April April” Elizabeth von Arnim called “Vera” her best novel. This is a dramatic and partly autobiographical story that love is deceiving and sometimes not the ones that seem in the days of romantic courtship. Lucy and Everard recently lost loved ones: she is a beloved father, he is a wife, faith. The growing heart affection leads the heroes to the inevitable marriage. But can a marriage be happy if a woman is blinded by love, and a man is an egoist, listens only to himself? And what happened to Vera, whose death became sudden for all the inhabitants of the family estate?

The novel saw the light in 1921, and that hour the readers put it on a par with an “thunderstorm” Emily Bronte.