Couperus
Americannoun
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Set in the colonial East Indies, the book was written by Louis Couperus, whom van Hove compares to Thomas Mann.
From The New Yorker
Louis Couperus is a Dutch author, and he has written the most delightful work entitled “Psyche.”
From Project Gutenberg
This delicate story is Louis Couperus’ third novel.
From Project Gutenberg
In the present story, Couperus reverts, at times and in a measure, to that earlier, “sensitivist” method which he abandoned almost wholly in Small Souls and which he again abandons in The Twilight of the Souls and in Dr. Adriaan, the third and fourth novels of the series.
From Project Gutenberg
In 1884 a little volume of lyrics, and in 1886 the more important Orchids, showed in Couperus a poet whose sympathies were at first entirely with the new school.
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