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Herman Robbers

From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

Herman Robbers , 1868-1937, Dutch novelist. A representative of descriptive realism, he wrote De Roman van een Gezin (1909-10; tr. The Fortunes of a Household, 1924).

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