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Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
Category: Classic Fiction
The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature. When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the No ...Show more
Hamsun's Hunger by Knut Hamsun , Tore Rem, Terence Cave
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This new translation seeks to restore the startling freshness and epidermal unease of Hamsun's breakthrough story of 1890. It remains faithful to the style and voice of the text, the shifts of tense, the indirect free style, and the constant changes of register as the inner monologue moves between poeti ...Show more
Hunger by Knut Hamsun; Jo Nesbø (Introduction by); Paul Auster (Introduction by, Afterword by); Sverre Lyngstad Lyngstad (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
This existential novel by Norwegian author, Knut Hamsun, is often compared to works by Dostoevsky or Émile Zola, two of his main influences. Hunger has been called the literary opening of the 20th century and is a psychological narrative of a man whose interior is in a state of decay. Knut Hamsun won th ...Show more
Hunger by Hamsun Knut
Category: Fiction
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. ...Show more
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin world literature
One of the first modernist novels 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin h ...Show more
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Category: Classic Fiction
A compelling journey into the mind of a young writer who is driven by starvation to constantly fluctuating extremes of euphoria and despair.
MYSTERIES by HAMSUN KNUT
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
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, ...Show more
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
"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 ag ...Show more
Mysteries - Classic Edition by Knut Hamsun; Gerry Bothmer (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction
'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 ...Show more
Pan by Knut Hamsun
Category: Fiction
Hamsun's portrait of a man rejecting the claims of bourgeois society for a Rousseauian embrace of Nature and Eros, in a remarkable new translation."The work contains a harmony found only in the highest types of poetry; it is actually poetry set in prose, and boasts the best traits of each." Isaac Bashev ...Show more