OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]
Idalia
"It can concern you in no way ... but since you ask it, know that I cherish freedom too well to be wedded"
“It is a story of love and hatred, of affection and jealousy, of intrigue and devotion…” (Albany Evening Journal, contemporary review).
“If life so beloved a thing, that we must be too great cowards to chance its loss when another is in extremity, and needs us?” (p.72). A mysterious woman and her wolfhound save a man left for dead in the Carpathian woods. Set amidst the backdrop of the Italian War of Independence, Idalia, the protagonist, is a rebellious ingénue heroine sympathetic to the cause.
Missing rear free endpaper. Hinges cracking, webbing visible, otherwise a very bright copy.
