Books with author MARIE LOUISE DE LA RAMEE

A Dog of Flanders is an 1872 novel by English author Marie Louise de la Ramée published with her pseudonym "Ouida". It is about a Flemish boy named Nello and his dog, Patrasche and is set in Antwerp. Despite being set in Belgium it's fairly obscure there. In Japan and Korea the novel has been a children's classic for decades and was adapted into several Japanese films and anime. Since the 1980s the Belgian board of tourism has caught on to the phenomenon and build two monuments honoring the story to please East-Asian tourists. There is a small statue of Nello and Patrasche at the Kapelstraat in the Antwerp suburb of Hoboken. In 19th century Belgium, a boy named Nello becomes an orphan at the age of two when his mother dies in the Ardennes. His grandfather Jehann Daas, who lives in a small village near the city of Antwerp, takes him in. One day, Nello and Jehann Daas find a dog who was almost beaten to death, and name him Patrasche. Due to the good care of Jehann Daas, the dog recovers, and from then on, Nello and Patrasche are inseparable. Since they are very poor, Nello has to help his grandfather by selling milk. Patrasche helps Nello pull their cart into town each morning. Nello falls in love with Aloise, the daughter of Nicholas Cogez, a well-off man in the village, but Nicholas doesn't want his daughter to have a poor sweetheart. Although Nello is illiterate, he is very talented in drawing. He enters a junior drawing contest in Antwerp, hoping to win the first prize, 200 francs per year. However, the jury selects somebody else. Afterwards, he is accused of causing a fire by Nicholas (the fire occurred on his property) and his grandfather dies. His life becomes even more desperate. Having no place to stay, Nello wishes to go to the cathedral of Antwerp (see Rubens' The Elevation of the Cross and The Descent of the Cross), but the exhibition held inside the building is only for paying customers and he's out of money. On the night of Christmas Eve, he and Patrasche go to Antwerp and, by chance, find the door to the church open. The next morning, the boy and his dog are found frozen to death in front of the triptych.

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A new edition of a beautiful Christmas story already prized as a classic by all who knew it. "Will be hailed by the very young readers as especially theirs....Vividly written...so true to life." -The Chautauquan "One of the best of Ouida's (Louise de la Ramée) short stories, and replete with interest to boys and girls who love a real good dog story. The tale is of a little Belgian boy and Belgian girl - both orphans, whose favorite companion and best friend was a fine dog, who dragged the cart with the milk cans to the city as his daily stunt, and did many other things to earn a few centimes for his little master and mistress, and a bone for himself. For years the dog served and befriended them, but the pathos comes when on one bitter night of frost in Antwerp, the boy and the dog were frozen to death in the great cathedral, and were found by the Cure as he wended his way on the altar for the morning mass." -Journal of Education "That a story for children should be good literature we believe, and therefor we take pleasure in recommending 'A Dog of Flanders,' by Louisa de la Ramée, for here is good diction which will surely delight the children and beauty of thought to which they are quite able to respond." -The Christian Work "Those persons who associate this gifted French woman only with her brilliant and sometimes daring novels, have no conception of the result when a talent for storytelling such as hers, is turned, as a labor of love, to the service of those keenest epicures, the children." -The Interior "Louise de la Ramée, or Ouida, has written several children's stories that rank with the world's classics. One of these, her matchless little story, 'A Dog of Flanders,' is recommended in our latest list." -The Young Woman's Journal "Deserves a place in every young folks' library." -The School Journal