Louis Couperus - Noodlot & Footsteps of Fate - 1891

Richard Canning, professor of British and American literature, made the news two years ago with his call in The Times Literary Supplement for a new English translation of Louis Couperus' novel Noodlot (1891). Prior to the book publication, it had already appeared in two episodes in De Gids, and was published by Heinemann in 1891 in a translation by Clara Bell under the title Footsteps of Fate. In his appeal, Canning also referred to the influence Footsteps of Fate may have had on Oscar Wilde, in the creation of his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (something Frédéric Bastet also pointed out in his 1987 biography of Couperus). The 1st edition of both books is offered here.

- Noodlot, Uitgevers-Maatschappij 'Elsevier', 1891 [= 1890], 211 pag. (Van Vliet, Decorated stories, p. 123 and ill. 1 on p. 122).
- Footsteps of Fate, translated from the Dutch by Clara Bell, Heinemann's International Library, introduction by Edmund Gosse, 1891, 272 pag.