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Linen-worked cover, image without dust jacket, sixth edition. Part 1 of Jaapje - Jaap - Jacobus In 'Jaapje' you can read the childhood memories of the writer Jacobus van Looy. He spent his youth in the Burgerweeshuis in Haarlem. Jaapje is the first book in the autobiographical trilogy. In the bitter time of the First World War, the story offered deep comfort to many Dutch people. The orphanage existence of the seven-year-old boy was like a spiritual remedy for the world fire that was everywhere at that time. Many readers recognized the author's own youth in the stories that appear in the book and labeled it autobiographical. In this way it gave hope: if the author was still alive, then surely things would end well for Jaapje?
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