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The Later Life
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. [In preparation. IV. DR. ADRIAAN. [Later.
The Later Life
By
Louis Couperus
Author of “Small Souls,” “Footsteps of Fate,” etc.
Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Louis Couperus
Author of “Small Souls,” “Footsteps of Fate,” etc.
Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
1915
Dodd, Mead and Company
1915
Copyright, 1915
By Dodd, Mead and Company
Translator’s Note
The Later Life is the second of The Books of the Small Souls, following immediately upon Small Souls, the novel that gives the title to the series. In the present story, Couperus reverts, at times and in a measure, to that earlier, “sensitivist” method which he abandoned almost wholly in Small Souls and which he again abandons in The Twilight of the Souls and in Dr. Adriaan, the third and fourth novels of the series.
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.
Chelsea,
22 March, 1914.