New PDF release: Eline Vere

By Louis Couperus,Ina Rilke,Paul Binding

Eline Vere is a passionate and rebellious younger socialite, dwelling within the Hague within the past due nineteenth century. pushed via a hugely lively mind's eye, she makes an attempt to flee the slim confines of her bourgeois lifestyles, and to strength fact to stay as much as her desires - however the global has different plans. In Eline Vere, with its attention-grabbing heroine and aiding solid of her woman acquaintances and kin, Couperus minutely and vividly inspires the characters, conventions, manners and hypocrisies of Dutch society in 1889 - and but engages with themes which are often debated to this day.

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