The novel by Louis Couperus, the Dutch Oscar Wilde, is full of grace in the spirit of Art Nouveau. The story of four generations of an aristocratic family, w...

Novels by famous American historical writers tell the story of the reign of the Persian king Xerxes (?–465 BC). The central place is occupied by the descript...

A mystical Javan prince and a promiscuous wife are twin challenges to Commissioner Van Oudijck's seemingly impregnable authority. As he struggles to maint...

"Cornelie De Retz Van Loo, a twenty-three-year-old divorcee from an upper-class Hague milieu, tries with mixed feelings to begin a new life in Italy in 19...

Louis Couperus was catapulted to prominence in 1889 with Eline Vere, a psychological masterpiece inspired by Flaubert and Tolstoy. Eline Vere is a young h...

Ecstasy is the story of young widow roused out of the torpor of her solitude by a dalliance with a courtly womanizer. It is written in a dreamily impressi...

The action of the novel by one of the most famous and mysterious classics of Dutch literature of the early twentieth century takes place in Indonesia. The lo...