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| Author | Marie Louise de la Ramée |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Romance, Drama, Tragedy |
| Published | 1872 (Chapman and Hall) |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 80 pp |
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.[1] 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,[1] that was later replaced by a marble statue of the two characters covered by a cobblestone blanket, created by the artist Batist Vermeulen.
- ^ a b "Nello and Patrasche – the Antwerp's story of the Dog of Flanders". Beneluxguide.com. Retrieved 30 November 2016.