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 […]
Unfortunately, this year's Poetry International event at Mayflower Bookshop has been cancelled.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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). […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]