OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]
Wanda
"But no lover was there. The Countess Wanda dismissed all lovers; she was wedded to the memory of her brother, and to her own liberty and power."
The story of an aristocratic, reclusive, idealistic, naive young woman whose world is destroyed by a man. Originally published in 1883, this ‘yellowback’ edition dated 1890.
The novel was a best-seller in the late nineteenth century and was turned into an acclaimed stage play by Edmund Morse and an opera by Antonín Dvorák.
Nice, bright condition.