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Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by John Constable, Jean Béraud and James McNeill Whistler. A beautiful, idle young woman in the Hague society of the 1880s cannot decide anything and is destroyed by the indecision. Couperus was twenty-six and the novel made him at once the leading Dutch writer of his generation. This edition includes fifty-nine plates of paintings by Jean Béraud, John Constable and others, and a translation by Jack Thomas Grein.
Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by John Constable, Jean Béraud and James McNeill Whistler. A beautiful, idle young woman in the Hague society of the 1880s cannot decide anything and is destroyed by the indecision. Couperus was twenty-six and the novel made him at once the leadin...
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Louis Couperus (1863-1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet born in The Hague, who spent part of his childhood in the Dutch East Indies. He wrote some thirty books, travelled constantly in Italy and North Africa, and is regarded as the foremost Dutch novelist of his era. His works include Eline Vere, The Hidden Force, Old People and the Things That Pass, and Small Souls.
Louis Couperus (1863-1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet born in The Hague, who spent part of his childhood in the Dutch East Indies. He wrote some thirty books, travelled constantly in Italy and North Africa, and is regarded as the foremost Dutch novelist of his era. His works include Eline Vere...
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