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Louis Couperus

Works by Louis Couperus
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Psyche [Buy Direct]
by Louis Couperus
Translated by B.S. Berrington
Original title: Psyche

Ecstasy [Buy Direct]
by Louis Couperus
Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos and John Gray
Original title: Extaze

The Hidden Force [Buy Direct]
by Louis Couperus
Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Original title: De stille kracht
Louis Couperus wrote The Hidden Force around 1900 while he was visiting the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia), then one of the Netherlands’ colonies. The novel is also set there, and Couperus’s first-hand experience clearly shows.  (more...)

Old People and the Things that Pass (1906)
by Louis Couperus
Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Original title: Van oude menschen, de dingen die voorbijgaan
Old People is a novel from the beginning of the twentieth century, by an author who was fêted at the time, especially in Britain, as a major international writer. It has a dark secret at its core, even though on the surface we detect very little action.  (more...)



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