A Dog of Flanders
1872 illustration by Enrico Mazzanti | |
| Author | Marie Louise de la Ramée |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | E. B. Bensell (US) Enrico Mazzanti (UK) |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's literature, Romance, Drama, Tragedy |
| Set in | 19th-century Flanders, Antwerp |
| Publisher | Lippincott (US) Chapman & Hall (UK) Tauchnitz (Germany) |
Publication date | December 1871 (magazine) 25 January 1872 (volume) |
| Publication place | United States United Kingdom Germany |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 22 (US) 64 (UK) 63 (Germany) |
| Text | A Dog of Flanders at Wikisource |
A Dog of Flanders is an 1872 novel by English author Marie Louise de la Ramée published under her pseudonym "Ouida". It is about a Flemish boy named Nello and his dog, Patrasche, and is set in Antwerp.
In Japan, Korea, Russia, Ukraine and the Philippines, the novel has been a popular children's classic for decades and has been adapted into several Japanese films and anime. Since the 1980s, the Belgian board of tourism noticed the phenomenon and built two monuments honoring the story to attract East-Asian tourists. There is a small statue of Nello and Patrasche at the Kapelstraat in the Antwerp suburb of Hoboken, and a commemorative plaque in front of the Antwerp Cathedral donated by Toyota, that was later replaced by a marble statue of the two characters covered by a cobblestone blanket, created by the artist Batist Vermeulen.