A Posthumous Confession
by Emants, Marcellus
- Used
- Near Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0704300230
- ISBN 13
- 9780704300231
- Seller
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The Woodlands, Texas, United States
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Synopsis
Marcellus Emants (1848–1923) was a Dutch poet, novelist, and playwright. After coming into a substantial inheritance at the age of twenty-three following the death of his father, he threw over his law studies and dedicated his life to travel and literature. Emants had little contact with his contemporaries, and published his first poems and plays in two literary magazines he co-founded while still at the University of Leiden. He also founded a theater company, where many of his plays—productions that he directed and acted in as well—were performed. In 1904 Emants married the German actress Jenny Kuhn, with whom he had a daughter, Eva Clara Jenny (she subsequently adopted the name Lilith, from the title of an early epic poem by her father). He took a special interest in psychical phenomena and participated, with the physiologist G. A. van Rijnberk, in experiments with the famous medium Eusapia Palladino. Emants died in the Grand Hôtel in Baden, Switzerland. J.M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003, is currently a visiting professor of humanities at the University of Adelaide. His newest book, Summertime, was published in 2009.
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- Bookseller
- Good Books In The Woods (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51826
- Title
- A Posthumous Confession
- Author
- Emants, Marcellus
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0704300230
- ISBN 13
- 9780704300231
- Publisher
- Quartet Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- 0704300230
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