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Hunger

by George Egerton, Knut Hamsun

This powerful, autobiographical novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author made literary history when it was first published in 1890. A modern classic about a penniless, unemployed young writer, the book paints an unforgettable portrait of a man driven to the edge of self-destruction by forces beyond his control.

Under the Autumn Star (Sun & Moon Classics)

Under the Autumn Star (Sun & Moon Classics)

by Knut Hamsun

Sult (En Lanterne - Bok, Kr. 7,50)

Growth of the Soil

by Knut Hamsun

The story of an elemental existence in rural Norway.

The Wanderer (Condor Books)

by Knut Hamsun

Text: English, Norwegian (translation)

Mysteries (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Mysteries (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

by Tony Harrison, 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)

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)

The Last Joy (Green Integer Books:)

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.

Markens gr²de (Lanterne-b²kene)Knut Hamsun

Markens gr²de (Lanterne-b²kene)

by Knut Hamsun

Text: Danish

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Hunger

by George Egerton, Knut Hamsun

Under the Autumn Star (Sun & Moon Classics)

by Knut Hamsun

Sult (En Lanterne - Bok, Kr. 7,50)

Growth of the Soil

by Knut Hamsun

The Wanderer (Condor Books)

by Knut Hamsun

Mysteries (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

by Tony Harrison, Knut Hamsun

On Overgrown Paths

by Knut Hamsun

The Last Joy (Green Integer Books:)

by Knut Hamsun

Markens gr²de (Lanterne-b²kene)

by Knut Hamsun