OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]

A Dog of Flanders and other Stories

"It was a Christian country, and Pastrache was but a dog"

A New Edition. 8vo, 293pp, 32pp publisher’s catalogue dated Feb 1896, and with additional ads on endpapers. ‘Yellowback’, original printed yellow paper covered boards, Pears Soap advert to rear board. London, Chatto & Windus. n.d. 1892, 1896.

£125.00

Four short stories by Ouida, the first of which is A Dog of Flanders, “A sentimental animal fable and study in Flemish genre subject-matter.” (Sutherland, p.192).

“Nello lives with his ancient guardian, Jehan Daas, on the outskirts of Antwerp.
Daas is a peasant who is assisted by a Flemish dog, Patrasche, who draws his milk cart to market. Patrasche is well used by his masters (unusual enough ill Belgium, as Ouida notes) and adores them. Nello grows up with artistic yearnings he can never fulfil. And his love for the miller’s daughter Alois is forbidden because of his poverty. Finally he freezes to death outside Antwerp Cathedral (whose Rubens paintings are his inspiration) with the loyal dog Patrasche in his arms. Ouida makes the story a text for her lifelong campaign for kindness to animals.” (Sutherland, p.192).

Reasonably bright copy.

Stock No.
251274