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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 […]
Jane Austens nalatenschap en die van de beide Cassandra’s
Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, LeidenComing 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 […]
GREAT LOVES – Leo van Zanen – Polifemo y Galatea (Luis de Góngora)
Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, LeidenGreat 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 […]
Triple book launch
Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, LeidenJoin 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 & […]
GREAT LOVES 2 – Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare commemoration 2024)
Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, LeidenThis 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 […]
GREAT LOVES – Ruud Hisgen – Senilità – (As a man grows older) (Italo Svevo)
Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, LeidenAs the third event in our series Great Loves, we travel to the Italy of Italo Svevo. We would probably never have heard of Italo Svevo (pseudonym of Ettore Schmitz […]
GREAT LOVES – Wim Tigges – Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, LeidenGreat Loves #4: Cathy and Heathcliff in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights On June 30th, Wim Tigges will tells us about the great love between Cathy and Heathcliff in the fourth […]
GREAT LOVE – Louis Smit – Anna Karenina (Lev Tolstoj)
Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, LeidenComing up – Great Loves: Anna and Alexei – a forbidden love in Lev Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina On Sunday August 25, Mayflower Bookshop's Great Books series will feature 'Anna […]
GREAT LOVES – Coco Hoek – Bonjour Tristesse (Françoise Sagan)
Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, LeidenOn Sunday September 22, Mayflower Bookshop's Great Books series will feature Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan as the sixth event in the series. Bonjour Tristesse took the world by storm as […]
GREAT LOVES – Hans van der Veen – Effi Briest (Theodore Fontane)
Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, LeidenOn Sunday October 27, Mayflower Bookshop Great Loves series presents Theodor Fontane’s masterpiece Effi Briest as the 7th lecture in the series. Published in book form in 1895, Effi Briest […]
OSCAR WILDE FESTIVAL
Mayflower Bookshop Leiden Breestraat 70, LeidenOn October 16th, Oscar Wilde was born 170 years ago; reason for Mayflower Bookshop to organize a festival on November 10th about this fascinating 19th poet and playwright! Oscar Fingal […]