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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
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quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
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keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Hunger (Paperback, Main - Canons Imprint Re-Issue)
Knut Hamsun; Introduction by Jo Nesbo; Afterword by Paul Auster; Translated by Sverre Lyngstad; Introduction by Paul Auster
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INTRODUCTION BY JO NESBO AFTERWORD BY PAUL AUSTER
Nineteenth-century Kristiania is an unforgiving place, and work is
thin on the ground. Roaming the streets of Norway's capital, a
penniless young writer searches for inspiration whilst trying
desperately to make ends meet. Driven to extraordinary lengths,
sleeping under the stars with his stomach growling, the writer's
behaviour becomes increasingly irrational and his world spirals
into chaos. Hunger was Knut Hamsun's first novel and earned him the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. A disturbing and darkly
humorous masterpiece of existential fiction, Hunger anticipated and
influenced some of the twentieth century's most acclaimed writers
including Camus, Kafka and Fante.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
'Knut Hamsun founded the modernist and postmodernist novel at once'
writes James Wood in his introduction to this seminal work by a
Nobel Prize-winning writer who has been recognised as one of the
greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. A young man
called John Nagel arrives to spend a summer in a small Norwegian
coastal town, a stranger in a loud yellow suit who begins to behave
very curiously. He shocks, bewilders and beguiles with his open
defiance and erratic self-revelations. Nagel's presence acts as a
catalyst for the hidden impulses, concealed thoughts and darker
instincts of the townsfolk. Cursed with the ability to understand
the human soul, especially his own, Nagel can foresee, but cannot
prevent, his own destruction.
This is the story of Isak, a worker of the land, with its roots in
man's deepest myths about the struggle to cultivate the land and
make it fertile. Sweeping and panoramic, the story moves at the
pace of the passing seasons and with the growth of the crops on
which the characters' lives depend. Hamsun's themes of individual
freedom, and the fundamental human need to reconcile man with the
natural world, speak even more resonantly than when the novel was
first published.
One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary history with the publication in 1890 of this powerful, autobiographical novel recounting the abject poverty, hunger and despair of a young writer struggling to achieve self-discovery and its ultimate artistic expression. The book brilliantly probes the psychodynamics of alienation and obsession, painting an unforgettable portrait of a man driven by forces beyond his control to the edge of self-destruction. Hamsun influenced many of the major 20th-century writers who followed him, including Kafka, Joyce and Henry Miller. This book is required reading in world literature courses. Unabridged republication of the 1921 George Egerton translation.
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Mysteries (Paperback)
Knut Hamsun; Translated by Gerry Bothmer
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In a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads
begin to unravel when an unsettling stranger named Johan Nagel
arrives. With an often brutal insight into human nature, Nagel
draws out the townsfolk, exposing their darkest instincts and
suppressed desires. At once arrogant and unassuming, righteous and
depraved, Nagel seduces the entire community even as he turns it on
its head--before disappearing as suddenly as he arrived.
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Growth of the Soil (Paperback)
Knut Hamsun; Translated by Sverre Lyngstad; Introduction by Brad Leithauser
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The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel
Prize in Literature-the first new English translation since the
novel's original publication ninety years ago
When it was first published in 1917, "Growth of the Soil" was
immediately recognized as a masterpiece. Ninety years later it
remains a transporting literary experience. In the story of Isak,
who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid
the untilled tracts of the Norwegian back country, Knut Hamsun
evokes the elemental bond between humans and the land. Newly
translated by the acclaimed Hamsun scholar Sverre Lyngstad,
Hamsun's novel is a work of preternatural calm, stern beauty, and
biblical power-and the crowning achievement of one of the greatest
writers of the twentieth century.
First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes into the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions.
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Dreamers (Paperback)
Knut Hamsun; Translated by Tom Geddes
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The midnight sun illumines more than fishing and fjords in this
remote northern Norwegian village. In fact, half-baked schemes and
hilarity abound. Big Ove Rolandsen, telegraph operator, mad
scientist, and local Casanova, trades wits, fists, and kisses with
a host of quirky neighbors. He serenades the curate's wife and
fights a drunken giant, but taking on Trader Mack, the town's
fish-glue magnate, is a more difficult matter. Knut Hamsun, author
of the acclaimed Hunger and winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize for
Literature, renders the dreams and dramas of these townsfolk with a
delightfully light touch. Robert Bly has written that Hamsun "has a
magnifying glass on his eye, like a jeweler's," and Dreamers gleams
like a perfect, semi-precious stone.
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Der Segen der Erde
Redaktion Gröls-Verlag; Knut Hamsun
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Mysterien
Redaktion Gröls-Verlag; Knut Hamsun
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Segen der Erde
Redaktion Gröls-Verlag; Knut Hamsun
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Mysterien
Redaktion Gröls-Verlag; Knut Hamsun
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Hunger (Paperback)
Knut Hamsun; Translated by Robert Bly; Introduction by Paul Auster
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A true classic of modern literature that has been described as "one
of the most disturbing novels in existence" ("Time Out"), Hunger is
the story of a Norwegian artist who wanders the streets, struggling
on the edge of starvation. As hunger overtakes him, he slides
inexorably into paranoia and despair. The descent into madness is
recounted by the unnamed narrator in increasingly urgent and
disjointed prose, as he loses his grip on reality.
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Pan (Paperback)
Knut Hamsun
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