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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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Dinner for One – Mayflower Theatre Company

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

Dinner for One, a classic on German television for over 40 years (but less well known in Britain) is a short sketch picturing Miss Sophie’s 90th birthday party, featuring her butler James in the roles of her four guests, who have all passed away… For the fourth time, this hilarious sketch will be performed in […]

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Dinner for One – Mayflower Theatre Company

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

Dinner for One, a classic on German television for over 40 years (but less well known in Britain) is a short sketch picturing Miss Sophie’s 90th birthday party, featuring her butler James in the roles of her four guests, who have all passed away… For the fourth time, this hilarious sketch will be performed in […]

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A Christmas Carol – Freek Bouricius

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

On Thursday December 21st at 1930, Mayflower’s Freek Bouricius will continue Mayflower’s Christmas tradition with a reading of a slightly shortened version of Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol. This timeless Christmas story is the perfect preparation for your Christmas!

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Mad, bad and dangerous to know

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’ - Byron’s poetry after 200 years Sunday January 28, 2024: 16.00 In April 1816, the notorious George, sixth Lord Byron, was leaving England for the final time. Hounded by increasingly damaging accusations – of adultery, sodomy (then a capital offence), and incest with his half-sister – he was escaping […]

Jane Austens nalatenschap en die van de beide Cassandra’s

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

Coming up: Jane Austen’s legacy On Sunday, February 18, linguist and anglicist Prof. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade will treat us to a lecture on  much beloved novelist Jane Austen. Not so much on Austen’s novels, as on her language and the legacy she left us. Becaues Jane Austen's legacy consists of more than just her […]

GREAT LOVES – Leo van Zanen – Polifemo y Galatea (Luis de Góngora)

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

Great Loves series Following our successful 'Great Books' series in 2023, we are now launching a new international series: 'Great loves'. This series will cover different types of love: the love between man and woman, the love between father and daughter and pink love is not forgotten either. And as diverse as these lectures are […]

Triple book launch

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

Join us for a discussion of three recently published books on artistic explorations of volcanoes, Queer politics and Dutch rugby and a drawing book! - Adam Bobbette, Mira Asriningtyas & Dito Yuwono (eds), Berita Gunung Berapi: Planetary Politics in a Volcanic Age (2023) - Samoa Greeve, Fields of Pride: Queering Dutch Rugby (2023) - Cahaya […]

GREAT LOVES 2 – Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare commemoration 2024)

Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, Leiden

This year, our annual commemoration ceremony of William Shakespeare also features our second event in the ‘Great Loves’ series, focusing on the iconic love story of Romeo and Juliet. On Sunday April 21st, you are invited to join us at Mayflower Bookshop at 16.00 for our annual walk and commemoration of Shakespeare, when Leo van Zanen […]