Best Selling Books by Knut Hamsun

Der reiche Handelsmann und ungekrönte König des Ortes, Ferdinand Mack, hat aus einer Laune heraus beschlossen, aus dem kleinen Postbeamten Benoni Hartvigsen einen wohlhabenden Kaufmann zu machen. Ein Bestandteil des Planes ist die Verlobung mit Rosa Barfod, die früh zu erkennen gibt, dass Benoni nicht ihre eigene Wahl ist. Eine ernste Krise zwischen den Verlobten steht bevor, als Rosas Jugendfreund Nikolai Arentsen nach beendetem Studium in seine Heimat zurückkehrt. Hamsun macht in ''Benoni'' seelische Vorgänge sichtbar, die diesem Nordlandroman psychologisch-realistische Tiefe verleihen.

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New edition of J.S. Scott''s 1924 English translation of Children of the Age (original title: Børn av Tiden) by Knut Hamsun, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. Hamsun described it as "a novel about the war between the aristocrat and the peasant." The Encyclopedia of the Novel (2014) called it "a historically based--and utterly scathing--critique of modernity." And the Hamsun Centre (Hamsunsenteret) website wrote: "In Children of the Age a family''s rise and fall are used to describe the decline and fall of a whole epoch. Thematically the novel has similarities to Thomas Mann''s Buddenbrooks (1901), with Hamsun''s humour being the stylistic difference between the two." Children of the Age was a commercial success when it was first published in Norway in 1913. Isaac Anderson, writing in The Literary Digest International Book Review (1924), described it as "Hamsun''s art at its best," and, while concluding that was "not so great a novel as Growth of the Soil," it had the same epic quality, and "deserves, and undoubtedly will have, a high place among the novels of our time." This new edition is not simply a scan of the original. It has been completely reformatted and redesigned. Spelling errors and other typos that appeared in the original Alfred A. Knopf edition have been corrected.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

En ung mand går rundt i Kristianias gader fuld af drømme og hallucinationer, som er skabt af sult