In "Othmar," Ouida delves into the complexities of aristocratic life and the moral dilemmas faced by its characters. Set against a backdrop of opulent European landscapes, the novel is notable for its lush, descriptive prose and its keen psychological insights. Combining melodrama with elements of social commentary, Ouida weaves a narrative that critiques the rigid structures of society and the personal sacrifices demanded by duty and honor. The interplay of romance and tragedy in "Othmar"...

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Moths by Ouida - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Collected Works of Ouida’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Ouida includes original annotatio...

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A guardsman takes the blame for a forgery to protect his brother, enlists under another name in the French cavalry in Algeria, and is loved by Cigarette, the girl who rides with the regiment. Ouida wrote it in her twenties and it was read by every subaltern in the British army. This edition binds 57 plates after John Leech, Gustave Caillebotte and Édouard Manet, with three restored and coloured illustrations in the text.

Ouida in short form: officers, gambling debts, a woman who is cleverer than the men admiring her, and the Continental spa where reputations are lost. Maria Louise Ramé took her pen name from a child's mispronunciation of Louisa, kept a suite at the Langham, wrote some forty novels, and died in poverty in Italy having given most of it to stray dogs. The flamboyance is the point, and she is funnier than her reputation. Fifty-nine plates of officers, society women and leisure in full sunlight...

An opal necklace lost in the Venetian lagoon brings together a Countess, a rich and careless young nobleman who adores her, and Damer, an English physiologist with great ambition and no scruple. When the young man falls ill, Damer holds both the serum that could save him and the toxin that will make his death certain, and follows the logic of the laboratory. Ouida wrote it in the 1890s, when the new bacteriology was a public excitement, and it is one of the coldest of her late stories; the...

Short novels and stories of the fashionable world by the young Ouida - a wager over a woman, a matchmaking mother, and a guardsman's honor. She wrote these in her early twenties for the magazines and the swagger is already complete. This edition is bound with a gallery of 56 plates, among them paintings by Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Gainsborough and Edvard Munch.

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Held in Bondage by Ouida - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Collected Works of Ouida’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Ouida includes original...

Ouida's Under Two Flags is a sweeping imperial romance of honor, exile, and sacrifice, moving from the glittering drawing rooms and regimental circles of England to the harsh, sun-struck battlefields of French Algeria. Centered on the aristocratic Bertie Cecil, who assumes disgrace to shield another and is reborn as the legionnaire "Louis Victor," the novel blends melodrama, military adventure, and sensation fiction with lush, theatrical prose. Its famous figure of Cigarette, the fierce vi...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.***Synopsis:"Nello and Patrasche were left all alone in the world." So begins the poignant story of the two orphans who were to become inseparable companions. They were Nello, an orphaned youth, and Patrasche, the dog which he and his grandfather saved from near death one day. The tale takes place outside of Antwerp, and so popular has this story become that there is a commemorative statue of Nell...

"Othmar" follows the story of its titular character, Othmar, a wealthy and enigmatic aristocrat living in Italy. He is a man of high social standing who is both admired and feared by those around him. Despite his outward success and social status, Othmar is a deeply troubled and conflicted individual.The plot delves into his complicated relationships with various characters, including his romantic entanglements and his interactions with the society that both supports and condemns him. The ...

The novel is about The Hon. Bertie Cecil or Beauty of the Brigades. In financial distress because of his own profligacy and the loss of an important horse-race on which he has bet extensively, and falsely accused of forgery, but unable to defend himself against the charge without injuring the "honour" of a lady and also exposing his younger brother (the real culprit), Cecil fakes his own death and exiles himself to Algeria where he joins the Chasseurs d'Afrique, a regiment comprising soldi...