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The Inevitable
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By Louis Couperus 14 Jun, 2019
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Cornelia 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. After some time in Rome, she discovers that Italy itself can never bring her the consolation she seek ... Read more
Cornelia 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. After some time in Rome, she discovers that Italy itself can never bring her the consolation she seeks and writes a pamphlet on "The Social Position of the Divorced Woman". She meets the Dutch painter Duco van der Staal, and they move in together, flouting convention. Almost their only acquaintances are an amorous Italian prince and the American heiress he has married for her money. Duco and Cornelia are happy but poor, and their financial position goes from bad to worse. In desperation, Cornelia takes a position as a companion to an elderly American lady in Nice, where she encounters her ex-husband, and despite initial resistance, she finally succumbs to his continuing power over her... ** Less
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  • 2012-03-03
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  • 9781901285598
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Louis Couperus
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Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (10 June 1863 – 16 July 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet. His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological and historical novels, novellas, shor...
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