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In The Three Eyes, author Maurice Leblanc veers away from the Sherlock Holmes-style mysteries that were long his stock-in-trade and mixes things up by introducing some science fiction elements. A series of mysterious images are projected onto a wall, and onlookers are unable to discern their source. Where are they coming from, and what does it mean?
In the novel The Tour, Dutch writer Louis Couperus takes a sharp detour from his usual subject matter of psychological dramas set in early twentieth-century Europe to explore a story of lost love amongst the dusty byways and lavish compounds of the upper class in ancient Egypt.
This engrossing novel is part of renowned Dutch writer Louis Couperus' four-book series The Books of the Small Souls, which follows multiple generations of the Van Lowe family. Skillfully weaving influences ranging from Wagner to Tolstoy, The Twilight of the Souls documents brother Gerrit's descent into madness.
The novel The Later Life is the second of four books in Dutch writer Louis Couperus' tetralogy recounting the triumphs and tribulations of the wealthy Van Lowe family in nineteenth-century Europe. In the series, Couperus evolves away from the lyrical style of his earlier works to some degree and adopts a more realistic approach.
The Life of the Spider is a volume in Jean-Henri Fabre's Souvenirs Entomologiques, in which he shares fifty years of careful observation. He re-acquaints us with the most everyday insects, inspiring a new interest, awareness and understanding in the reader. This volume concerns spiders.