One of the bestselling late Victorian authors, the English novelist Ouida, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé, is known for her extravagant melodramatic romances of fashionable life. Her novels were considered controversial, offering a marked contrast to the moralising prose of early Victorian literature. Ouida penned gripping sensational novels, proto-adventure stories and important critiques on contemporary society. This comprehensive eBook presents Ouida’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Ouida’s life and works

* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts

* 21 novels, with individual contents tables

* Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including ‘Pascarel’, Moths’ and ‘Helianthus’ and many more

* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts

* Excellent formatting of the texts

* Rare short stories, often missed out of collections

* Easily locate the short stories you want to read

* Includes Ouida’s non-fiction – available in no other collection

* Features a bonus biography

* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

* UPDATED with 4 more novels, a short story and a collection of essays

CONTENTS:

The Novels

Held in Bondage (1863)

Under Two Flags (1867)

Folle-Farine (1871)

Pascarel (1873)

Two Little Wooden Shoes (1874)

Signa (1875)

In a Winter City (1876)

Ariadne (1877)

Moths (1880)

A Village Commune (1881)

In Maremma (1882)

Wanda (1883)

Princess Napraxine (1884)

Othmar (1885)

The Tower of Taddeo (1893)

Toxin (1895)

Le Selve (1896)

An Altruist (1897)

The Massarenes (1897)

The Waters of Edera (1900)

Helianthus (1908)

The Shorter Fiction

Cecil Castlemaine’s Gage and Other Stories (1867)

Beatrice Boville and Other Stories (1868)

A Dog of Flanders (1872)

Bimbi (1882)

A Rainy June and Other Stories (1885)

A House Party (1887)

A Provence Rose (1893)

Street Dust (1901)

The Short Stories

List of Short Stories in Chronological Order

List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order

The Non-Fiction

Views and Opinions (1895)

The New Priesthood (1897)

Dogs (1897)

Critical Studies (1900)

The Biography

Brief Biography (1912) by Elizabeth Lee