Ouida (1839–1908)
Autore di A Dog of Flanders
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Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Although she preferred Marie Louise de la Ramée, her real name was Maria Louise Ramé, and she often went by her pen name: Ouida.
Opere di Ouida
Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies (1890) 10 copie
Pipistrello and Other Stories 3 copie
Tricotrin | In a Winter City | Little Grand and the Marchioness | Our Country Quarters | Trente-et-Un (1889) 2 copie
Santa Barbara and Other Stories 2 copie
Puck | In Maremma 2 copie
A Rainy June: A Novelette 2 copie
Helianthus: A Novel 2 copie
Ruffino 2 copie
Princess Napraxine. Tome 2 1 copia
Moufflou and other stories 1 copia
La Strega 1 copia
Nello en Patrasj 1 copia
Don Gesualdo 1 copia
Muriella; or, Le Selve, 1 copia
A mad world, a vision 1 copia
The New Franchise 1 copia
The Tower of Taddeo 1 copia
Street Dust and Other Stories 1 copia
Toxin: A Story of Venice 1 copia
Two New Dog Stories and Another 1 copia
ふらんだーすのいぬ (せかいの名作ぶんこ (38)) 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- de la Ramée, Maria Louise
de la Ramé, Maria Louise - Altri nomi
- Ouida
- Data di nascita
- 1839-01-07
- Data di morte
- 1908-01-25
- Luogo di sepoltura
- English Cemetery, Bagni di Lucca, Italy
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- England
UK - Luogo di nascita
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Viareggio, Italy
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
Florence, Italy - Attività lavorative
- novelist
short story writer - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Blue Plaque
- Breve biografia
- Marie Louise de la Ramée was born to a French father and an English mother. Her pen name of "Ouida" (WEE-da) was derived from a childish mispronunciation of the name Louise. Educated in Paris, she settled in London in 1857 and began her literary career by contributing stories to periodicals such as The New Monthly and Bentley's Magazine. After her early success with the popular novels Held in Bondage (1863) and Strathmore (1865), Ouida quickly became the best-selling British writer of witty, romantic novels such as Moths (1880) and Princess Napraxine (1884). In 1874, she went to live in Florence, and many of her books written after that had Italian settings. Despite their overheated plots and ridiculous heroes, her books were popular until the end of the century. She made a lot of money from her writing, but died in poverty.
- Nota di disambiguazione
- Although she preferred Marie Louise de la Ramée, her real name was Maria Louise Ramé, and she often went by her pen name: Ouida.
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"There is...something which the ordinary human mind finds soothing and delightful in this formula of 'the sanctity of human life,' when combined with a corresponding disregard for human and for all other life. The good Christian likes to be raised aloft, in his own eyes, from all those other races which he imagines were given to him for his use and abuse by a gracious Deity. He loves to think that both God and the neighboring policeman are watching over him; and taking care alike of his soul and of his greatcoat, In the enormous vanity of the Christian who believes all the laws of the universe altered for him, or in the equally enormous vanity of the scientist who arrogates to himself the right to dogmatise on the mysteries of temperament, this attitude is not surprising. But in either the philosophic mind; or the poetic temperament, it is so because to the philosopher the difference between the human and the other races cannot appear very great, whilst to the poet the solidarity of all sentient life must always seem unquestionable."
"When I use the term melodrama, I mean by it that which mimics the tragic, but falls short of it; the tragic, imitated but so environed, that it loses dignity and has something of the inflated and grotesque."
"To draw the reader's attention to a conspicuous object, and then to cheat the expectations raised concerning it, is a great fault in art; but it is one of which English and American writers are continually guilty."
Ouida was an uncompromising critic of vulgar art, of avarice, and of bigotry. She was a fierce defender of animal rights, and campaigned her entire life for the humane treatment of animals. This book, first published in 1900, contains essays on a few French and Italian writers, on F. Marion Crawford (born American but spent most of his life in Sorrento), and commentary generally on the destruction of beauty and human character brought about by industrialization.… (altro)
"When I use the term melodrama, I mean by it that which mimics the tragic, but falls short of it; the tragic, imitated but so environed, that it loses dignity and has something of the inflated and grotesque."
"To draw the reader's attention to a conspicuous object, and then to cheat the expectations raised concerning it, is a great fault in art; but it is one of which English and American writers are continually guilty."
Ouida was an uncompromising critic of vulgar art, of avarice, and of bigotry. She was a fierce defender of animal rights, and campaigned her entire life for the humane treatment of animals. This book, first published in 1900, contains essays on a few French and Italian writers, on F. Marion Crawford (born American but spent most of his life in Sorrento), and commentary generally on the destruction of beauty and human character brought about by industrialization.… (altro)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 92
- Opere correlate
- 10
- Utenti
- 1,042
- Popolarità
- #24,715
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 19
- ISBN
- 200
- Lingue
- 7
- Preferito da
- 1
(More seriously: I've never really read anything quite like this book. It's not from an historical era I really know anything about, and I read it because I found it at the used book store, and it was so small, and odd, and there was this one line about hedgehogs...
Anyway, it's a weird little thing, an oddity of its time probably, but it amused me and made for an entertaining Sunday afternoon read. Also, I know a lot more about antique stoves now than I did yesterday, so there's that.)
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