Holland's hidden classics, newly in English.
Charlemagne sent out by an angel to steal by night, Dik Trom on his donkey, a proud heiress everyone calls Major Frans, a flute playing across a moonlit Java sugar estate, Houbraken's lives of the Golden Age painters and Amsterdam in the year 3000 as a writer imagined it in 1792. 41 books, many of them in English for the first time.
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