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  Growth of the Soil

  by Knut Hamsun

  When Knut Hamsun won the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1920, it was mostly because of this 1917 novel (Growth of the Soil), an epic vision of peasant life in Norway’s backcountry. The saga of Isak and Inger (born with a harelip) and their hard times is by turns affecting and ponderous; the somewhat overheated first-person narrators of Hamsun’s extraordinary early novels—"Hunger" and "Pan"—are replaced by a... (more)
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  Hunger

  by Knut Hamsun

  "Hunger" tells the story of an unnamed vagrant who stumbles around the streets of Norway's capital looking for food. Hamsun creates a stunning portrait of poverty and a biting social commentary on modern urban life. We follow the vagrant in the story around the town and discover the true depths of his hunger.
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  Pan

  by Knut Hamsun

  First published in 1894, Knut Hamsun's PAN recounts Thomas Glahn's retrospective narrative of his life and adventures in the Norwegian woods. PAN provides a lyrical, yet disturbing, analysis of love and the recesses of the psyche. This superb new translation restores the power and virtuosity of Hamsun's original and includes an informative Introduction.
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  Under the Autumn Star

  by Knut Hamsun

  Smooth as glass the water was yesterday, and smooth as glass it is again today. Indian summer on the island, mild and warm—ah! But there is no sun. It is many years now since I knew such peace. Twenty or thirty years, maybe; or maybe it was in another life. But I have felt it some time, surely, since I go about now humming a little tune; go about rejoicing, loving every straw and every stone, and feeling as... (more)
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  Mysteries

  by Knut Hamsun

  Mysteries (1892) is the story of Johan Nilsen Nagel, a mysterious stranger who suddenly turns up in a small Norwegian town one summer-and just as suddenly disappears. Nagel is a complete outsider, a sort of modern Christ treated in a spirit of near parody. He condemns the politics and thought of the age, brings comfort to the insulted and injured and gains the love of two women suggestive of the biblical Mary and... (more)
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  Victoria

  by Knut Hamsun

  When it first appeared in 1898, this fourth novel by celebrated Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun captured instant acclaim for its poetic, psychologically intense portrayal of love’s predicament in a class-bound society. Set in a coastal village of late nineteenth- century Norway, Victoria follows two doomed lovers through their thwarted lifelong romance. Johannes, the son of a miller, finds inspiration for... (more)
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  On Overgrown Paths

  by Knut Hamsun

  Fiction. ON OVERGROWN PATHS was written after World War II, at a time when Hamsun was in police custody for his openly expressed Nazi sympathies during the German occupation of Norway, 1940-45. A Nobel laureate previously loved by his countrymen, Hamsun was now reviled as a traitor -- as long as his sanity was not called into question. The psychiatric report declared him to be sane, but concluded that his... (more)
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  The Last Joy

  by Knut Hamsun

  Published in Norway in 1912, The Last Joy was written at the height of Hamsun's literary powers, two years after his famous novel Rosa . Like many novels of this period it concerns the Norwegian landscape and everyday workers.
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  Sult (En Lanterne - Bok, Kr. 7,50)

  by Knut Hamsun

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  Foamea

  by Knut Hamsun

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  The Wanderer

  by Knut Hamsun

  Text: English, Norwegian (translation)