Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by John Constable, Jean Béraud and James McNeill Whistler. A beautiful, idle young woman in the Hague society of the 1880s cannot decide anything and is destroyed by the indecision. Couperus was twenty-six and the novel made him at once the leading Dutch writer of his generation. This edition includes fifty-nine plates of paintings by Jean Béraud, John Constable and others, and a translation by Jack Thomas Grein.