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by Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé / Marie Louise de la Ramée)
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Hardback, 1895, first edition/first edition thus (all essays, except two, previously published in the Fortnightly Review and the North American Review), published by Metheun & Co., London, 399 pages and 32-page publisher catalogue at rear.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 7 7/8" by 5 3/8" by 1 1/2". Maroon cloth binding, gilt lettering to front board and spine. Some discolouration, particularly to spine and upper edges of boards, but reasonably clean. Signs of shelf-wear, bumped corners. Binding reasonably firm though cracking to front inner hinge. Page edges neatly cut and deckled; browned and scuffed. Endpapers quite marked but otherwise, apart from the odd mark here and there, page surfaces clean, with no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
Information on the author, taken from Good Reads:
Ouida was the pen name of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ramée).
During her career, she wrote more than 40 novels, children's books and collections of short stories and essays. She was an animal rights activist and animal rescuer, and at times owned as many as thirty dogs. For many years she lived in London, but about 1874 she went to Italy, where she died.
Ouida's work went through several phases during her career. In her early period, her novels were a hybrid of the sensationalism of the 1860s and the proto-adventure novels dubbed "muscular fiction" that were emerging in part as a romanticization of imperial expansion. Later her work was more along the lines of historical romance, though she never stopped comment on contemporary society. She also wrote several stories for children. One of her most famous novels, Under Two Flags, described the British in Algeria in the most extravagant of terms, while nonetheless also expressing sympathy for the French with whom Ouida deeply identified and, to some extent, the Arabs. This book went on to be staged in plays, and subsequently to be turned into at least three movies, transitioning Ouida in the 20th century.
Jack London cites her novel Signa, which describes an unschooled Italian peasant child who achieves fame as an opera composer, and which he read at age eight, as one of the eight reasons for his literary success.
Hardback, 1895, first edition/first edition thus (all essays, except two, previously published in the Fortnightly Review and the North American Review), published by Metheun & Co., London, 399 pages and 32-page publisher catalogue at rear.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 7 7/8" by 5 3/8" by 1 1/2". Maroon cloth binding, gilt lettering to front board and spine. Some discolouration, particularly to spine and upper edges of boards, but reasonably clean. Signs of shelf-wear, bumped corners. Binding reasonably firm though cracking to front inner hinge. Page edges neatly cut and deckled; browned and scuffed. Endpapers quite marked but otherwise, apart from the odd mark here and there, page surfaces clean, with no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
Information on the author, taken from Good Reads:
Ouida was the pen name of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ramée).
During her career, she wrote more than 40 novels, children's books and collections of short stories and essays. She was an animal rights activist and animal rescuer, and at times owned as many as thirty dogs. For many years she lived in London, but about 1874 she went to Italy, where she died.
Ouida's work went through several phases during her career. In her early period, her novels were a hybrid of the sensationalism of the 1860s and the proto-adventure novels dubbed "muscular fiction" that were emerging in part as a romanticization of imperial expansion. Later her work was more along the lines of historical romance, though she never stopped comment on contemporary society. She also wrote several stories for children. One of her most famous novels, Under Two Flags, described the British in Algeria in the most extravagant of terms, while nonetheless also expressing sympathy for the French with whom Ouida deeply identified and, to some extent, the Arabs. This book went on to be staged in plays, and subsequently to be turned into at least three movies, transitioning Ouida in the 20th century.
Jack London cites her novel Signa, which describes an unschooled Italian peasant child who achieves fame as an opera composer, and which he read at age eight, as one of the eight reasons for his literary success.
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- Title
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- Author
- Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé / Marie Louise de la Ramée)
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First / First Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co. Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1895
- Pages
- 399
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Essays; Fortnightly Review; Society; Biography; Politics
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