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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 Cornelie De Retz Van Loo, a twenty-three-year-old divorcee meets the Dutch painter Duco van der Staal, and they move in together. Duco and Cornelie are happy but poor. In desperation, Cornelie takes a position as a companion to an elderly American lady, where she encounters her ex-husband, and succumbs to his continuing power over her.A gripping story of doomed passion from the pen of the Dutch Oscar Wilde Zusammenfassung Cornelie De Retz Van Loo! a twenty-three-year-old divorcee meets the Dutch painter Duco van der Staal! and they move in together. Duco and Cornelie are happy but poor. In desperation! Cornelie takes a position as a companion to an elderly American lady! where she encounters her ex-husband! and succumbs to his continuing power over her.
