1952 Marie Louise de la Ramée vintage Sunday School book Nurnberg Stove Christian English novelist Ouida. Family values story for children

During her career, Marie Louise de la Ramée aka Ouida wrote more than 40 novels, children's books and collections of short stories and essays. She was an animal rights activist and animal rescuer, and at times owned as many as thirty dogs. For many years she lived in London, but about 1874 she went to Italy, where she died. Ouida's work went through several phases during her career. In her early period, her novels were a hybrid of the sensationalism of the 1860s and the proto-adventure novels dubbed "muscular fiction" that were emerging in part as a romanticization of imperial expansion. Later her work was more along the lines of historical romance, though she never stopped comment on contemporary society. She also wrote several stories for children. One of her most famous novels, Under Two Flags, described the British in Algeria in the most extravagant of terms, while nonetheless also expressing sympathy for the French--with whom Ouida deeply identified--and, to some extent, the Arabs. This book went on to be staged in plays, and subsequently to be turned into at least three movies, transitioning Ouida in the 20th century. (Wikipedia)

ABOUT: Eleven-year-old Tina is the self-appointed guardian angel to the family's historic and artistic focal point: an antique stove, decorated by a Renaissance master. A gift to the impoverished Strehla family (father and four daughters) from their grandfather, the stove is considered a legitimate member of the family by creative Tina, who calls Hirschvogel by name and insists on feeding him (wood) with her own hand. The girl who was named after the creative genius proves the stove's most loyal champion.

Hard times and threatened layoffs force Karl Strehla to sell the beloved heirloom--despite the shocked protests of his devastated daughters. Refusing to accept this parental dictate, Tina undertakes various juvenile methods to prevent Hirschvogel's loss to callous strangers, who won't even know his name! (Goodreads)

CONDITION: POOR. Pages are foxed.
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