With his third novel, The Lion of Flanders, Hendrik Conscience won his place in the literature of the world, which he held to the end of his busy career; the titles of his books mount up to a hundred. But while he was hailed as a great author by all Europe, the deeper and more enduring value of his work, which is the rehabilitation of a language and the founding of a literature, was understood only in Belgium itself and in Holland. | The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience, Paperback | Indigo Chapters