‘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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
As 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 (1861-1928), born in Trieste, had he not been taught English by the Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941) at the beginning of the 20th century. The […]
Great 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 LOVES event. Wuthering Heights (1847), Emily Brontë's only novel, has become a 'classic' and a steady seller. Almost everyone knows the names of 'Cathy' […]
Coming 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 Karenina' by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy as the fifth event in the series. After 'War and Peace', this was the second great novel by this Russian […]
On 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 a succès de scandale in 1954 and bestowed instant fame on its author, 19-year-old Françoise Sagan. But not quite literary fame – from the beginning, it was […]
On 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 marks both a watershed and a climax in the poetic realism of literature. It can be thematically compared to other novels on 19th-century marriage from […]
On 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 O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one […]
On Thursday December 19 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!