Ecstasy, A Study of Happiness: A Novel by Louis Couperus
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"Ecstasy, A Study of Happiness: A Novel" by Louis Couperus is a psychological novel published in 1892. The story follows widow Cecile van Erven and her complex relationship with Taco Quaerts, who sees her as an object of exalted love while she longs for something more earthly and human. Couperus explores themes of happiness and suffering through this tale of incomplete connections, glorifying a form of platonic love where spiritual devotion collides
with unfulfilled desires, leaving his heroine caught between ecstasy and dissatisfaction. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Couperus, Louis, 1863-1923 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, 1865-1921 |
| Title | Ecstasy, A Study of Happiness: A Novel |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy:_A_Study_of_Happiness |
| Credits |
Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 81.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Widows -- Fiction |
| Subject | Dutch fiction -- Translations into English |
| Subject | Sexual attraction -- Fiction |
| Subject | Netherlands -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 37770 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-37770-4 |
| Release Date | Oct 16, 2011 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 545 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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