Ecstasy

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Ecstasy is a novel of burning passion and agonising restraint. In turn-of the-century Holland, Cecile, a beautiful high-society widow, falls in love with a notorious womanizer, but her desire must remain unspoken.

This is one of Couperus's most powerful novels. A brilliant observer of fin-de-siècle Dutch society, his works are characterised by perfect characterisation, exquisite description and a mordant wit, which brought comparisons to Oscar Wilde.

Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos,John Gray
Cover illustration by Duncan Ward
160 pp
Published 35827
ISBN 9781901285024
Pushkin Collection

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