Eline Vere
Title | Eline Vere PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Couperus |
Publisher | Archipelago |
Pages | 533 |
Release | 2010-02-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0982624662 |
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.
Eline Vere
Title | Eline Vere PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Couperus |
Publisher | Books By Willem |
Pages | 553 |
Release | 1940 |
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Eline Vere. Een Haagsche Roman.
Title | Eline Vere. Een Haagsche Roman. PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Couperus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1892 |
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Eline Vere
Title | Eline Vere PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Couperus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | Dutch fiction |
ISBN |
Eline Vere
Title | Eline Vere PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Couperus |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1971 |
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ISBN |
Eline Vere
Title | Eline Vere PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Couperus |
Publisher | Archipelago |
Pages | 533 |
Release | 2010-06-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0981955746 |
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.
What a Library Means to a Woman
Title | What a Library Means to a Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Sheila Liming |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2020-04-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1452960666 |
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.