Eline Vere: Een Haagsche roman

An intimate psychological portrait of a young woman navigating a cultivated urban social circle, detailing her social ambitions, romantic hopes, and the pressures exerted by family expectations and public opinion. The narrative unfolds through vivid salon scenes, staged entertainments, and domestic tableaux that reveal how surface elegance and aesthetic display conceal loneliness, inner conflict, and moral unease. Attention to social ritual and atmosphere highlights the tension between outward decorum and private feeling, and the work moves steadily toward a poignant, unsettling resolution that underscores the cost of maintaining appearances in a rigid social world.