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A series of rural sketches portrays a small village overshadowed by two neighboring aristocratic estates and an ancient windmill, showing how landed power, the parish priest, and inherited customs shape everyday life. The text follows seasonal rhythms and rural labors—children at play, cattle in the meadows, village inns and modest shops—while tracing a pervasive atmosphere of deference and constrained behavior in which manners and posture reflect social rank. Picturesque landscapes are set against the subtle pressure of authority and the routines that maintain communal order, and changing seasons underline both continuity and quiet transience across generations.

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Title: Van hoog en laag

Author: Cyriel Buysse

Release date: May 21, 2008 [eBook #25554]
Most recently updated: January 3, 2021

Language: Dutch

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Van Hoog en Laag

Het Eerste Levensboek

Uitgave van C. A. J. van Dishoeck
Te Bussum, in het jaar 1913.

N.V. Boekdr. v/h L. v. Nifterik Hzn., Leiden.