
Hendrik Conscience
Wat Geluk Dat Het Niet Waar Was! - Eerste Schets - I.
Het Wonderei - Tweede Schets. - I.
Het Paradijs Der Krankzinnigen. - Derde Schets - I.
Lost on an unending heath, the nameless wanderer drifts through a night so black it seems to swallow sound. A lone, trembling flame flickers in the distance, urging him onward despite the choking darkness, the rustling grasses, and the ache of exhaustion. Every step is a desperate search for shelter, for a hint of humanity, and the narrative captures the raw tension between hope and the abyss.
When he finally collapses, he awakens amid the shattered remnants of a once‑great city, its massive, crumbling wall rising like a silent sentinel. Broken houses, toppled towers, and an atmosphere of forgotten ruin surround him, hinting at a catastrophe that has erased a whole world from memory. Listeners are drawn into his bewildered quest to understand this desolate landscape and to discover whether a path back to civilization—or to some new meaning—still lies ahead.
Language
nl
Duration
~3 hours (211K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Clare Boothby and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2005-11-16
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1812–1883
A pioneering voice in Flemish literature, this 19th-century novelist helped make Dutch a serious literary language in Belgium. Best known for The Lion of Flanders, he wrote stories that mixed history, romance, and a strong sense of cultural identity.
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