Download or read book Eline Vere written by Louis Couperus and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Couperus was catapulted to prominence in 1889 with Eline Vere, a psychological masterpiece inspired by Flaubert and Tolstoy. Eline Vere is a young heiress: dreamy, impulsive, and subject to bleak moods. Though beloved among her large coterie of friends and relations, there are whispers that she is an eccentric: she has been known to wander alone in the park as well indulge in long, lazy philosophical conversations with her vagabond cousin. When she accepts the marriage proposal of a family friend, she is thrust into a life that looks beyond the confines of The Hague, and her overpowering, ever-fluctuating desires grow increasingly blurred and desperate. Only Couperus—as much a member of the elite socialite circle of fin-de-siècle The Hague as he was a virulent critic of its oppressive confines—could have filled this "Novel of The Hague" with so many superbly rendered and vividly imagined characters from a milieu now long forgotten. Award-winning translator Ina Rilke’s new translation of this Madame Bovary of The Netherlands will reintroduce to the English-speaking world the greatest Dutch novelist of his generation.
Download or read book Eline Vere written by Louis Couperus and published by Books By Willem. This book was released on 1940 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eline Vere Een Haagsche Roman written by Louis Couperus and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Law Inevitable written by Louis Couperus and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Law Inevitable" by Louis Couperus chronicles the story of a 23-year-old Dutch divorcee, Cornélie de Retz van Loo, from an upper-class The Hague background who seeks to start a new emancipated and culturally fulfilling life in Italy. Romance, and a newfound freedom cause van Loo to get a taste of the excitement life has to offer that she almost lost out on has she stayed in her dull and dead-end marriage.
Download or read book The Hidden Force written by Louis Couperus and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hidden Force is a book by Louis Couperus. It gives a picture of life in the colonial Dutch East Indies in the wake of the nineteenth and the twentieth century.
Download or read book What a Library Means to a Woman written by Sheila Liming and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the personal library and the making of self When writer Edith Wharton died in 1937, without any children, her library of more than five thousand volumes was divided and subsequently sold. Decades later, it was reassembled and returned to The Mount, her historic Massachusetts estate. What a Library Means to a Woman examines personal libraries as technologies of self-creation in modern America, focusing on Wharton and her remarkable collection of books. Sheila Liming explores the connection between libraries and self-making in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American culture, from the 1860s to the 1930s. She tells the story of Wharton’s library in concert with Wharton scholarship and treatises from this era concerning the wider fields of book history, material and print culture, and the histories (and pathologies) of collecting. Liming’s study blends literary and historical analysis while engaging with modern discussions about gender, inheritance, and hoarding. It offers a review of the many meanings of a library collection, while reading one specific collection in light of its owner’s literary celebrity. What a Library Means to a Woman was born from Liming’s ongoing work digitizing the Wharton library collection. It ultimately argues for a multifaceted understanding of authorship by linking Wharton’s literary persona to her library, which was, as she saw it, the site of her self-making.
Download or read book Dutch and Flemish Literature as World Literature written by Theo D'haen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent return of 'world literature' to the centre of literary studies has entailed an increased attention to non-European literatures, but in turn has also further marginalized Europe's smaller literatures. Dutch and Flemish Literature as World Literature shows how Dutch-language literature, from its very beginnings in the Middle Ages to the present, has not only always taken its cue from the 'major' literary traditions of Europe and beyond, but has also actively contributed to and influenced these traditions. The contributors to this book focus on key works and authors, providing a concise, yet highly readable, history of Dutch-language literature and demonstrating how this literature is anchored in world literature.
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Download or read book Literature of the Low Countries written by Reinder Meijer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In any definition of terms, Dutch literature must be taken to mean all literature written in Dutch, thus excluding literature in Frisian, even though Friesland is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the same way as literature in Welsh would be excluded from a history of English literature. Simi larly, literature in Afrikaans (South African Dutch) falls outside the scope of this book, as Afrikaans from the moment of its birth out of seventeenth-century Dutch grew up independently and must be regarded as a language in its own right. . Dutc:h literature, then, is the literature written in Dutch as spoken in the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the so-called Flemish part of the Kingdom of Belgium, that is the area north of the linguistic frontier which runs east-west through Belgium passing slightly south of Brussels. For the modern period this definition is clear anough, but for former times it needs some explanation. What do we mean, for example, when we use the term 'Dutch' for the medieval period? In the Middle Ages there was no standard Dutch language, and when the term 'Dutch' is used in a medieval context it is a kind of collective word indicating a number of different but closely related Frankish dialects. The most important of those were the dialects of the duchies of Limburg and Brabant, and of the counties of Flanders and Holland.
Download or read book Beauty and the Beast written by P. Th. M. G. Liebregts and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material --Acknowledgements /Peter Liebregts and Wim Tigges --Introduction: Beauty and the Beast /Wim Tigges --Christina Rossetti in and Out of Grace /C.C. Barfoot --Christina Rossetti: Sisters, Brothers and the "Other Woman" /Amanda Gilroy --Wrapped in a Dream: Katharine Tynan and Christina Rossetti /Peter van De Kamp --Walter Pater's Versatility as a Critic /Billie Andrew Inman --After Studies: Walter Pater's Cancelled Book, or Dionysus and Gay Discourse in the 1870s /Laurel Brake --Walter Pater, George Moore and R.L. Stevenson /Peter Costello --The Influence of Walter Pater in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the Picture of Dorian Gray /Ans Kabel --Dr Jekyll, Mr Hyde, and Count Dracula /Douglas S. Mack --Stevenson's Monkey-Business: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyu and Mr Hyde /Tim Youngs --Two Visionary Storytellers Of 1894: R.L. Stevenson and Anton Chekhov /Neil Cornwell --Robert, Alexandre, Marcel, Henri, Jean Et Les Autres: R.L. Stevenson and his "French Connections" /Sjef Houppermans --The Early Production and Reception of Stevenson's Work in England and the Netherlands /Jacques B.H. Alblas --Oscar Wilde: The Beginning of the end /John Stokes --Kipling's Decadent Empire: The Light That Failed and the Fin-De-Siècle /Susan de Sola Rodstein --Brutality Under The Mask of Elegance: Fin-De-Siècle Vienna in Arthur Schnitzler's Drama /Cobi Bordewijk --Louis Couperus, the Dutch Oscar Wilde, on Beauties and Beasts /Jacqueline Bel --Frederik van Eeden on Stevenson and Pater /Wim Tigges --Notes on Contributors /Peter Liebregts and Wim Tigges.
Download or read book The London Mercury written by Sir John Collings Squire and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Life written by John Ames Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die written by Peter Boxall and published by Cassell. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 1276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary fiction. Featuring more than 700 illustrations and photographs, presenting quotes from individual novels and authors, and completely revised for 2012, this is the ideal book for everybody who loves reading.
Download or read book The Literary World written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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