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  Louis Couperus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (1863 – 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet of the late 19th and early 20th Century.
Couperus' 1891 novel Noodlot (Footsteps of Fate) was much admired by Oscar Wilde, and many have noted stylistic similarities between Noodlot and Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Couperus' later works include De Stille Kracht (The Hidden Force, 1900) and De Berg van Licht (The Mountain of Light, 1906), a decadent and seamy novel set at the height of the Roman Empire.
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 ipedia.com: Louis Couperus Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Louis Marie-Anne Couperus was a Dutch novelist and poet of the late 19th and early 20th Century.
Couperus' 1891 novel Noodlot (Ill Fate) was much admired by Oscar Wilde, and many have noted stylistic similarities between Noodlot and Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorien Gray.
Couperus' later works include De Stille Kracht (The Hidden Force, 1900) and De Berg van Licht (The Mountain of Light, 1906), a decadent and seamy novel set at the height of the Roman Empire which was an international success.
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 Louis Couperus Museum - English summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Louis Couperus is one of the greatest Dutch novelists.
Couperus, who firmly believed in reincarnation, was convinced he had been an ancient Roman in a previous life.
The Louis Couperus Genootschap is the biggest literary society in The Netherlands.
www.despin.net /sites/couperus/English.htm   (239 words)

  
 Psyche - Louis Couperus
Louis Couperus' Psyche is a fairy tale, based on the ancient story of Psyche.
Couperus offers a new and very different story.
Couperus creates a convincing fantasy world, and despite all the abstractions made real (from kingdoms of the past and future to the spiders and the fantastic creature) and the occasionally heavy-handed symbolism it is a wonderful, magical realm.
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 Couperus, Louis Marie Anne on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Couperus is best known for the realistic family saga De Boeken der kleine Zielen (4 vol., 1901-03, tr.
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 AllRefer.com - Louis Marie Anne Couperus (Miscellaneous European Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Louis Marie Anne Couperus (Miscellaneous European Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Louis Marie Anne Couperus, Miscellaneous European Literature, Biographies
Louis Marie Anne Couperus[lwE mArE´ An kOOpA´roos] Pronunciation Key, 1863–1923, Dutch novelist.
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 Louis M A Couperus, poet and writer (Books of Small Soles), dies at 60 July 16 in History
Louis M A Couperus, poet and writer (Books of Small Soles), dies at 60 July 16 in History
Louis M A Couperus, poet and writer (Books of Small Soles), dies at 60
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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 »»european Reviews««
Authors: Louis Couperus, Alexander Teixeira De Mattos, E. Beekman, and Alexander Teixeira De Mattos
This is a wonderful novel, an exploration of sexuality, colonialism, race and power in colonial Indonesia.
The book is not easy -- there is nuance and no movie version -- but Couperus brilliantly critiques the paranoia of the late Dutch empire.
www.financial-book-review.com /european/european_418.html   (5274 words)

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