Complete Romance Adventure of Knut Hamsun

A Norwegian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. 


Hamsun is considered the "leader of the Neo-Romantic revolt at the turn of the [20th] century", with works such as Hunger (1890), Mysteries (1892), Pan (1894), and Victoria (1898). 


Contents

Hunger

Shallow Soil

Pan

Growth of the Soil

Wanderers

Look Back on Happiness

Under the Autumn Star 

Mothwise


Growth of the Soil -

This work, the one for which, in all likelihood, the Nobel prize for literature for 1920 was awarded the author, is based on the theme that all things spring from the soil and is marked by the simple grandeur, the terrible beauty, and the all-embracing dignity that are integral parts of that motif. "One of the very greatest novels I have ever read."--H. G. Wells


Pan -

The smell and the sounds in the northern woods and the color of the changing seasons described, are the memories that remain rather than the story and the character sketch of the man who lived alone in a cabin in the heart of the forest.


Hunger -

A gripping portrait of an artist struggling for integrity. Translated from the Norwegian by George Egerton.


Shallow Soil -

A brilliant study of Christiania at the close of last century, whose characters are the writers and professional people of the city's Bohemia.


Wanderers -

Knut Pedersen and his companion wander through Norway working here and there. Quiet observations of the country and people, mainly the gentry and middle class. The story deals frankly with the problems of marriage, faithful and unfaithful. Said to be largely autobiographical.Translated by W. W. Worster.