He is the Emily Dickinson Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College. ISBN: Mysteries (Condor Books) by Knut Hamsun See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 4.59 Paperback 7.29 - 15.94 Mass Market Paperback - Select Condition Like New Unavailable Very Good 7.29 Good - Acceptable 8.89 New 15.94 See All 10 Editions from 4.59 Selected Format: Paperback Condition: Very Good 7.

Olav Medal and with the Knight's Cross, First Class, of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit.īrad Leithauser (introducer) is the author of several novels, four volumes of poetry, and a collection of essays. He translated five of Knut Hamsun's works for Penguin Classics- Hunger (1890), Mysteries (1892), Pan (1894), Victoria (1898), and The Growth of the Soil (1917) -and was honored by the King of Norway with the St. Knut Hamsun founded the modernist and postmodernist novel at once write James Wood in his introduction to this seminal work by a Nobel Prize-winning. It is the story of Johan Nagel, a strange young man who arrives to spend a summer in a small Norwegian coastal town. Mysteries is a classic of European literature, one of the seminal novels of the twentieth century. dc.date.accessioned: dc.date.available: dc.date. Sverre Lyngstad (1922-2011 translator, introducer, notes) was a scholar and translator of Norwegian literature and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. 6.70 6 Used from 6.70 1 New from 34.95 1 Collectible from 35.00. Publication date 1922 Topics C-DAK Collection digitallibraryindia JaiGyan Language English Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.93424 dc.thor: Chater,arthur G. His first novel, Hunger (1890), was an immediate critical success he went on to write the novels Mysteries (1892), Pan (1894), Victoria (1898), and The Growth of the Soil (1917), the last of which earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.

Born to a poor peasant family in central Norway, he worked as a schoolmaster, sheriff's assistant, laborer, store clerk, farmhand, and streetcar conductor in both Scandinavia and America before establishing himself as a successful playwright and novelist. Knut Hamsun (1858-1952) was a Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright hailed by many as one of the founders of modern literature.

Mysteries by Knut Hamsun