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The Inevitable

by Louis Couperus

1920 · Novel

Open Library OL1456911W

The Inevitable was first translated into English by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos and published in New York in 1920 by Dodd Mead and Company, and in London ('The Law Inevitable', ) by Thornton Butterworth. The Inevitable recounts a 23-year-old Dutch divorcee, Cornélie de Retz van Loo, from an upper-class The Hague background who seeks to start a new emancipated, culturally fulfilling life in Italy.

About the author

Louis Couperus (1863–1923) is represented here by 7 public-domain titles, including Old People and the Things That Pass, Small Souls, and The Inevitable. This page is a shelf list: the books are read on Open Library, not stored here. More of this shelf for Louis Couperus.

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