# Extaze: Een Boek van Geluk

By Louis Couperus.

"Extaze: Een Boek van Geluk" by Louis Couperus is a novel published in 1892. Young widow Cecile van Even lives quietly with her two sons, spending her days in dreams and melancholy. When she meets Taco Quaerts, a charismatic sportsman with a Don Juan reputation, she initially dislikes him. But an unexpected connection draws her toward this complex man who describes himself as having two sides—a soul and a beast within. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: Dutch
- Subjects: Widows -- Fiction; Dutch fiction; Sexual attraction -- Fiction; Netherlands -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction

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