# The Twilight of the Souls Author: Couperus, Louis, 1863-1923; Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, 1865-1921 [Translator] Genre: Category: Novels Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34458 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Twilight+of+the+Souls+Couperus&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary When Gerrit woke that morning, his head felt misty and tired, as though weighed down by a mountain landscape, by a whole stack of mist-mountains that bore heavily upon his brain. His eyes remained closed; and, though he was waking, his nightmare still seemed to cast an after-shadow: a nightmare that he was being crushed by great rocky avalanches, which he felt pressing deep down inside his head, though he was conscious that the red daylight was already dawning through his closed eyelids. He lay there, big and burly, sprawling in his bed, beside Adeline's empty bed: he felt that her bed was empty, that there was no one in the room. The curtains had been drawn back, but the blinds were stil... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/1/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/21/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/19/index.md) - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/15/index.md) - [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/26/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/17/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/18/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/20/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/13/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/14/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/25/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/23/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/22/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/28/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/16/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/27/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/24/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-twilight-of-the-souls-34458/chapters/29/index.md)