Eline Vere

Informationen zum Autor Louis Couperus (1863-1923) was born in The Hague, but spent much of his youth in the Dutch East Indies, where many of his novels and stories are set. He gained prominence in 1889 with the publication of Eline Vere -a psychological novel influenced by the style of Zola and Flaubert. Eline Vere was followed by Ecstasy in 1892, Psyche in 1898 and Inevitable in 1900. All four of these novelas are also available in new translations from Pushkin Press. Klappentext Describes the conventions, manners and hypocrisies of Dutch society.Eline Vere is a engrossing, brilliantly observed novel. Love, sorrow, madness and the tyranny of social snobbery are all laid bare in this classic of Dutch literature the book which made Louis Couperus, The Netherlands´ answer to Oscar Wilde, famous. Zusammenfassung Describes the conventions! manners and hypocrisies of Dutch society.

Product details

• Authors: Louis Couperus, Louis (Author) Couperus, Couperus Louis
• Assisted by: Ina Rilke (Translation), Ina (Translator) Rilke (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.04.2010
• EAN: 9781906548261
• ISBN: 978-1-906548-26-1
• No. of pages: 528
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945