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Louis Couperus

Lifespan: 1863 – 1923
Nationality: Dutch
Active: 1918
Works held: 1

Louis Couperus (1863–1923) was one of the greatest Dutch novelists, and among his wide-ranging work are significant fantasies and tales of the supernatural and fate, the mythological Psyche and Fidessa, and the occult-tinged fiction that reflects his fascination with the numinous. A refined literary voice touching the fantastic.

The works

1918

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Recurring themes

Kindred authors shared themes

A. A. Milne Abbie Farwell Brown Abbie Phillips Walker Adelbert von Chamisso Adélaïde de Montgolfier Alain René Le Sage Albert Bigelow Paine Alexandre Dumas

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Edgar Rice Burroughs L. Frank Baum Lord Dunsany Victor Appleton H. G. Wells Algernon Blackwood Arthur Conan Doyle Charles B. Stilson E. Nesbit Jack London

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