This work is in Dutch (lang: nl). Bernardus Gewin’s Reisontmoetingen van Joachim Polsbroekerwoud en zijne Vrienden is a nineteenth-century Dutch comic novel following the travels and social encounters of the amusingly named Joachim Polsbroekerwoud and his companions. In the tradition of the comic travel narrative, it satirises manners, social pretension, and provincial life through the accumulating incidents of the journey itself.
Little is widely recorded about Gewin beyond this text, but the novel belongs to a lively Dutch tradition of comic prose fiction. Download this free Dutch-language EPUB for a nineteenth-century social comedy told with continental wit.