Majesty

"Majesty" is an interesting work by Dutch novelist and poet Louis Couperus. In this work, he brilliantly portrays the private lives of the ruling class with pathos and humor. Excerpt from «Majesty» «Lipara, usually a city white as marble: long, white rows of villas on a southern blue sea; endless, elegant esplanades on the front, with palms whose green lacquer shimmered against an atmosphere of vivid blue ether. But to-day there drifted above it, heavily, a sombre, grey sky, fraught with storm and tragedy, like a leviathan in the firmament.»