Couperus, Louis 1863-1923 creator Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander 1865-1921 text utu 2011 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Ecstasy, A Study of Happiness: A Novel" by Louis Couperus is a psychological novel published in 1892. The story follows widow Cecile van Erven and her complex relationship with Taco Quaerts, who sees her as an object of exalted love while she longs for something more earthly and human. Couperus explores themes of happiness and suffering through this tale of incomplete connections, glorifying a form of platonic love where spiritual devotion collides with unfulfilled desires, leaving his heroine caught between ecstasy and dissatisfaction. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy:_A_Study_of_Happiness Release date is 2011-10-16 Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Original publication data not identified Widows -- Fiction Dutch fiction -- Translations into English Sexual attraction -- Fiction Netherlands -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction PT Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37770 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37770 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133848.0 37770