OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]
Tricotrin. The Story of a Waif & Stray.
"How the sun shines on you, as if you were a princess ... Ah, Nature is a terrible socialist!"
A small child is found in a forest by a man, Tricotrin, and his monkey. Wreathed in vines and crowned with butterflies, she appears as a woodland fairy, though she has been bound and left there by human hands. She is the “waif and stray” of the title. On discovery she says one word repeatedly, “Viva”, which she comes to be known as.
Rear hinge cracking but holding, soe scuffing to boards and marking to endpapers, but a nice bright example.
