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Poetry Week Event: Burns’ Night

Sunday January 29th, 16h00 – Breestraat 70 Traditionally, Dutch Poetry Week is celebrated in Mayflower Bookshop with a poetry event on the last Sunday of January. This year, Mayflower Bookshop marks the theme of Poetry Week 2023 (friendship) by marking the occasion of Burns’ Night on Sunday January 29th. Held throughout the world on January […]

Bookweek 2023: Maxim Osipov in Mayflower Bookshop

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

To celebrate Bookweek 2023 (March 11 – 19) Mayflower Bookshop is proud to welcome Maxim Osipov on Sunday March 12 for an interview on his recently published book Kilometer 101, followed by a signing session. In March 2022, after criticizing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian author and cardiologist Maxim Osipov fled Russia. First to […]

International Children’s Book Day: Winnie-the-Pooh

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

To celebrate International Children’s Book Day, Mayflower Bookshop organises a lecture on the famous Winnie-the-Pooh, hero of the books by A.A. Milne. Who hasn’t grown up with Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Rabbit, Kanga and Roe? Who doesn’t remember phrases such as: ‘It’s time for a little something’  and “I am not lost, […]

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Shakespeare Festival

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

2023 marks the fourth centennial of the publication of the ‘First Folio’, which was published in 1623, seven years after the death of William Shakespeare. This collection of 36 of Shakespeare's works brought together by two of his friends, John Heminges and Henry Condell under the full title of: Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies. […]

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GREAT BOOKS – Leo van Zanen – La Divina Commedia (Dante)

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

In La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (Italy, 1265 - 1321) describes a journey he makes through the various departments of life after death. Over the course of 14,233 verses, he finds old friends and enemies, meets historical and mythological figures, and is shown around by his favourite writer, Virgil. And finally […]

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GREAT BOOKS – Wim Tigges – Moby Dick (Herman Melville)

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

Melville's Moby-Dick, or The Whale (1851) is an American as well as a universal epic, and a stylistic masterpiece. It is the tragic quest of the monomaniac Captain Ahab, who seeks revenge on the white whale that has bitten off his leg. The young narrator ('Call me Ishmael') embarks on the Pequod among a crew […]

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CANCELLED (Poetry International event)

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

Unfortunately, this year's Poetry International event at Mayflower Bookshop has been cancelled.

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GREAT BOOKS – Louis Smit – De Revisor (Nicolai Gogol)

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

Hypocrisy and corruption unmasked On Sunday August 27th, Mayflower Bookshop's Great Books series will feature Nikolai Gogol's play ‘The Government Inspector’ (In Dutch: De Revisor) as the third lecture in this series. Gogol (1809-1852), a Russian writer of Ukrainian origin, is known for his ingenious and often absurdist work. To this day, ‘The Government Inspector’ […]

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PINK BOOKS with Splinter Chabot

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

You are cordially invited to join us on September 1st at 8:00 PM at Mayflower Bookshop, Breestraat 70, for an extraordinary Mayflower Special: "Pink Books," marking the essence of the first Leiden Pride. We are thrilled to host the highly acclaimed author Splinter Chabot, renowned for his best-selling novel "Confettiregen" (Confetti Rain). Immerse yourself in […]

GREAT BOOKS – Coco Hoek – Dangerous Liaisons (Choderlos de Laclos)

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

On Sunday September 24th, Coco Hoek will give the fourth lecture in Mayflower Bookshop’s Great Books series, featuring the famous novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses (In Dutch: Gevaarlijk spel met de liefde). Written by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, this epistolary novel was originally published in four volumes from 1782 and celebrated for its exploration of seduction, revenge and malice. The […]

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GREAT BOOKS – Hans van der Veen – Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

On Sunday, October 29th, germanist and performer Hans van der Veen will give a talk on Goethe’s famous epistolary novel Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers (The sufferings of young Werther). The novel, published in 1774, was Goethe’s first novel, and made Goethe almost overnight into one of the most famous authors. Young Werther, falls head […]

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GREAT BOOKS – Ruud Hisgen – El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (Cervantes)

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

Enchanted by books: Don Quixote and Miguel de Cervantes On Sunday November 26, Ruud Hisgen, anglicist, literary scholar and writer, will conclude our Great Books series with a lecture on the Spanish classic ‘El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha’ (The ingenious nobleman Don Quixote of La Mancha). This famous novel by Miguel de […]

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