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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - In a review which appeared in the
Athenaeum, of a translation of one of Jonas Lie's earlier works -
"Den Fremsynte" ("The Visionary") - the reviewer expressed a hope
that I would follow up that translation with "an English version of
Lie's 'Livsslaven, ' that intensely tragic and pathetic story of
suffering and wrong." It is in accordance with this suggestion that
the present volume makes its appearance. In taking Christiania life
for the subject of "Livsslaven," Jonas Lie attempted for the second
time to break down the preconceived opinion of critics, that such a
subject did not come within his province. They were accustomed to
have tales of sea-life from his pen, and could not readily be
persuaded that another sphere of life might afford equal scope for
his talent. "Thomas Ross," published in 1878, had treated of
Christiania life, and had attracted but little attention; and now,
in the spring of 1883, appeared this "story of a smith's
apprentice, with his struggles for existence and his ultimate final
failure owing to the irresistible indulgence of a passionate
physical instinct."
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