Around the same time, Louis Couperus (1863–1923) made his appearance. His boyhood years were spent in Java, and he had preserved in all his nature a certain tropical magnificence. His first literary efforts were lyrics in the "Tachtigers" style, but Couperus proved far more important and durable as a novelist. In 1891 he published "Noodlot", which was translated into English as "Footsteps of Fate" and which was greatly admired by Oscar Wilde. Couperus continued to pour out one important novel after another until his death in 1923. Another talent for prose was revealed by Frederik van Eeden (1860–1932) in "De kleine Johannes" ("Little Johnny", 1887) and in "Van de koele meren des doods" ("From the Cold Pools of Death", 1901), a melancholy novel.