Wanda, Vol. 1 (of 3)
Set against the vast, windswept plains of rural Russia and the refined drawing rooms of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ouida's Wanda opens with two figures adrift in grief. Countess Wanda von Szalras has withdrawn from the world following her brother's accidental death, but the Empress herself commands her return to society. In a remote village, Prince Paul Zabaroff discovers he owns a crumbling manor he never knew existed, and an estranged son, Vassia, raised in ignorance of his noble blood by a peasant woman named Maritza. As these two narratives converge, Ouida explores what remains when titles crumble and grief refuses to conform to social expectation. This is Volume One of a trilogy that maps the collision between old world nobility and the inexorable forward march of time.
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“Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.””
— Ouida
“I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.””
— Ouida
“I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world does not.””
— Ouida
“He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.””
— Ouida
“Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever?Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars.You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you?””
— Ouida
“The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.””
— Ouida
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