Yolande

Published originally in 1883 in various editions and various countries (this eBook version is taken from an 1883 illustrated American edition), and taking place in the era of its publication date, Yolande is yet another delightful romance from William Black that immerses the reader in English life as experienced by 19th-century ladies and gentlemen. Taking place primarily in three places—first on a trip to Egypt by two British families, then in Scotland, and finally along the eastern coast of England as the eponymous heroine bravely deals with a tragic family crisis, the author does a good job of painting with words the emotions and interactions among the various characters he introduces.

This digital version includes 22 illustrations from the original book, quality drawings by an uncredited artist.

William Black was a very popular and successful novelist while he was alive, whose fame for some reason did not maintain itself into the 20th century. But whether accorded modern-era critical acclaim or not, readers of William Black novels will enjoy themselves enough to understand why they were so popular at the time they were published. There is nothing better than a good romantic novel—and God help us if we ever reach a point as a species when such is not the case.

Preparing old books for digital publication is a labor of love at Travelyn Publishing. We hold our digital versions of public domain books up against any others with no fear of the comparison. Our conversion work is meticulous, utilizing a process designed to eliminate errors, maximize reader enjoyment, and recreate as much as possible the atmosphere of the original book even as we are adding the navigation and formatting necessary for a good digital book. While remaining faithful to a writer’s original words, and the spellings and usages of his era, we are not above correcting obvious mistakes. If the printer became distracted after placing an ‘a’ at the end of a line and then placed another ‘a’ at the beginning of the next line (they used to do this stuff by hand you know!), what sort of mindless robots would allow that careless error to be preserved for all eternity in the digital version, too? Not us. That’s why we have the audacity to claim that our re -publications are often better than the originals.