Description
In a sunlit but unforgiving 19th-century countryside, a small, seemingly worthless girl named Folle-Farine is exploited by a cruel miller and forced into a life of labor and humiliation. Yet her suffering becomes the seed of transformation as she is drawn into a new identity, where survival demands courage, secrecy, and hard-won self-knowledge. As she navigates love, betrayal, and the relentless pressure of social expectation, Folle-Farine’s story turns from mere endurance to a fierce pursuit of dignity and belonging. Ouida’s vivid, emotionally charged style brings both the beauty and brutality of rural life into sharp focus, making this volume a compelling study of resilience, class, and the cost of reinvention.
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paperback
Kessinger Publishing
Published Jun 30, 2004
528 pages
ISBN: 9781419120183
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First Published
1871
Language
eng
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