A Rainy June & Other Stories
In A Rainy June and Other Stories, Ouida — that restless and contradictory spirit of the Victorian literary world — turns her attention to the delicate agonies of love, culture, and misunderstanding. The title story, told through an epistolary lens, traces the slow unraveling of a marriage shadowed by rain, difference, and unspoken longing, while the other tales wander from English estates to sun-struck Italian villages, examining betrayal, sacrifice, and the stubbornness of hope. Throughout, Ouida's prose is at once lush and unsparing, revealing a world where beauty persists not despite human frailty, but because of it.
In A Rainy June and Other Stories, Ouida — that restless and contradictory spirit of the Victorian literary world — turns her attention to the delicate agonies of love, culture, and misunderstanding. The title story, told through an epistolary lens, traces the slow unraveling of a marriage shadowed by rain, difference, and unspoken longing, while the other tales wander from English estates to sun-struck Italian villages, examining betrayal, sacrifice, and the stubbornness of hope. Throughout, Ouida's prose is at once lush and unsparing, revealing a world where beauty persists not despite human frailty, but because of it.
In A Rainy June and Other Stories, Ouida — that restless and contradictory spirit of the Victorian literary world — turns her attention to the delicate agonies of love, culture, and misunderstanding. The title story, told through an epistolary lens, traces the slow unraveling of a marriage shadowed by rain, difference, and unspoken longing, while the other tales wander from English estates to sun-struck Italian villages, examining betrayal, sacrifice, and the stubbornness of hope. Throughout, Ouida's prose is at once lush and unsparing, revealing a world where beauty persists not despite human frailty, but because of it.