صفحة 1
Ecstasy: A Study of Happiness
THE BOOKS OF THE SMALL SOULS
By
LOUIS COUPERUS
Translated by
ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA de MATTOS
I. SMALL SOULS. II. THE LATER LIFE. III. THE TWILIGHT OF THE SOULS. IV. DR. ADRIAAN.
Ecstasy:
A Study of Happiness
A Study of Happiness
A Novel
By
Louis Couperus
Author of “Small Souls,” “Old People and the Things that Pass,” etc.
Translated by
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Louis Couperus
Author of “Small Souls,” “Old People and the Things that Pass,” etc.
Translated by
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
1919
Dodd, Mead and Company
1919
Copyright, 1919
By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.
VAIL-BALLOU COMPANY
BINGHAMTON AND NEW YORK
Translator’s Note
This delicate story is Louis Couperus’ third novel. It appeared in the original Dutch some twenty-seven years ago and has not hitherto been published in America. At the time when it was written, the author was a leading member of what was then known as the “sensitivist” school of Dutch novelists; and the reader will not be slow in discovering that the story possesses an elusive charm of its own, a charm marking a different tendency from that of the later books.
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Chelsea, 2 June, 1919