With jacket back cover image of Hamsun that we think strongly resembles that of Beat comedy legend Lord Buckley.

There he meets Edvarda, and the desperation and the happiness of their love is the theme of this book- their love, and Glahn's life in the forest through which Iselin wanders.' (from front flap) This, perhaps Hamsun's most famous novel, was the basis of several film versions, including a 1937 German production in which Josef Goebbels (a big fan of Hamsun's works) unsuccessfully attempted to lure Greta Garbo into portraying Edvarda.

'Lieutenant Thomas Glahn lives alone in the mountains, hunting for his daily meat and now and then going down to the trading station for bread. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, presumed first printing with no references to subsequent printings, originally published in Norway during 1894, & published in an earlier American English-translated edition in 1921. This pioneering psychological novel about an eccentric stranger who arrives at & proceeds to rattle the residents of a small Norwegian town was again translated into English for a 1971 edition with a laudatory afterword by (of all people) Isaac Bashevis Singer, who we suppose should have gotten a citation for his ability to separate the work from the man.(2) Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers, first UK edition thus, translated into English from the Norwegian by James W. Hardcover, first edition thus, second printing issued the same month & year (July 1927) as the first printing per copyright page, originally published as 'Mysterier' in Denmark during 1892 as noted thereon. Two rarities by Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian author whose literary innovations were & remain acclaimed & influential- but whose legacy is forever darkened by his having supported Adolf Hitler & the Nazis during World War II (as with Louis Ferdinand Celine, Ezra Pound et al.): (1) Mysteries, first American edition, translated into English from the Norwegian by Arthur G.

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