Delphi Collected Works of Ouida (Illustrated)

by Ouida

One of the bestselling late Victorian authors, the English novelist Ouida, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé, is known for her extravagant melodramatic romances of fashionable life. Her novels were considered controversial, offering a marked contrast to the moralising prose of early Victorian literature. Ouida penned gripping sensational novels, proto-adventure stories and important critiques on contemporary society. This comprehensive eBook presents Ouida’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Ouida’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* 17 novels, with individual contents tables
* Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including ‘Pascarel’, Moths’ and ‘Helianthus’ and many more
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Rare short stories, often missed out of collections
* Easily locate the short stories you want to read
* Includes Ouida’s non-fiction – available in no other collection
* Features a bonus biography
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

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CONTENTS:

The Novels
Held in Bondage
Under Two Flags
Folle-Farine
Pascarel
Two Little Wooden Shoes
Signa
In a Winter City
Ariadne
Moths
A Village Commune
Wanda
Princess Napraxine
Othmar
Toxin
An Altruist
The Waters of Edera
Helianthus

The Short Story Collections
Cecil Castlemaine’s Gage and Other Stories
Beatrice Boville and Other Stories
A Dog of Flanders
Bimbi: Stories for Children
A Rainy June and Other Stories
A House Party
Street Dust

The Short Stories
List of Short Stories in Chronological Order
List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order

The Non-Fiction
The New Priesthood: A Protest Against Vivisection
Dogs
Critical Studies

The Biography
Brief Biography by Elizabeth Lee

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11517 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 15, 2013

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Classic reverie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this very navigable which is always so much easier, that each chapter is easy to access on Kindle. There were errors I reported but not a huge amount and more so during the last half of the story. I appreciated the preface of the novel which had extra information and that I always read after, so not to spoil. I have one complaint that is her first novel "Idalia" is not printed here. I know it is not on Kindle but is accessible via a file on a device of choice. If the time comes and I would like to read and need be this way I will do so, but I hate reading that way for many reasons. As I read I will record my notes/highlights here but my reviews will be located under the title.