Victoria by Knut Hamsun
A miller's son, Johannes, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy landowner, Victoria. The novel follows them through adolescence, as Johannes struggles with the social hierarchy and becomes a successful author, and Victoria is forced into marrying Otto, a lieutenant, to save the troubled family economy. A lyrical excursion into unconsummated love, love that is described memorably as 'Blood and Blossoms'.
Knut Hamsun was the most influential writer of the late nineteenth century, creating a new literary style and a new literary type, the alienated outsider (typified in Mysteries), which became defining elements of modernism. In Growth of the Soil he created a novel of Biblical power, while Dreamers shows the gentler comic side of his imagination. Hamsun was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920 and died in 1952.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780285647596 |
| ISBN 10 | 0285647598 |
| Title | Victoria |
| Author | Knut Hamsun |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2001-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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