inspiration from Henry David Thoreau's book Walden, in Bussum, North Holland, where the residents tried to produce as much of their needs as they could themselves and to share everything in common, and where he took up a standard of living far below what he was used to. This reflected a trend toward socialism among the Tachtigers; another Tachtiger, Herman Gorter, was a founding member of the world's first Communist political party, the Dutch Social-Democratic Party, in 1909. In 1902 Van Eeden had written an introduction for the first Dutch translation of the book Walden, done by Jeanne Reyneke van Stuwe, the wife of the poet Willem Kloos. Van Eeden visited the U.S. He had contacts with William James and other psychologists. He met Freud in Vienna, whom he practically introduced in the Netherlands. He corresponded with Hermann Hesse, Charles Lloyd Tuckey (medical hypnotist), Harold Williams (linguist) and was a friend of Peter Kropotkin, the Russian anarchist living in London (UK).book Van Eeden also had a keen interest in Indian philosophy. He translated many of Tagore’s works, including Gitanjali and short stories. In late years of his life, Van Eeden became a Roman Catholic. Works See also Gerrit Mannoury Willem Cornelis Bauer References 2 ^ Augustinus P. Dierick: "Self-Stylization and Narrative Strategies in Frederik van Eeden's roman à thèse De nachtbruid." Papers from the Third Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies (ed. Ton J. Broos). Lanham, New York, London: University Press of America, 1988, 45-54. External links Clan-macrae.org.uk A Study of Dreams - Lucidity.com The Quest translation of De Kleine Johannes - Word-document 1860 births 1932 deaths 20th-century Dutch novelists 20th-century Dutch male writers Dutch male novelists Dutch psychiatrists People from Bussum People from Haarlem