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Hamsun, Knut - kənootˈ hämˈsoon, 1859–1952, Norwegian novelist. In his youth, virtually without formal education, he led a wandering life, and on his second visit to the United States (1886–88) he worked as a streetcar conductor, lecturer, peddler, clerk, and harvest hand. The theme of the wanderer is prominent in many of his novels, including the


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    Knut Hamsun Remembers America: Essays and Stories, 1885-1949 » Read Now

    by Knut Hamsun. 150 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    When Americans remember him at all, they no doubt think of Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) as the author of Hunger or as the Norwegian who, along with Vidkun Quisling, betrayed his country by supporting the Nazis during World War II. Yet Hamsun, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1920 for his novel The Growth of...
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    Knut Hamsun, in The Review of Contemporary Fiction » Read Now

    by Edmund White. 6 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Knut Hamsun by Edmund White Knut Hamsun is one of my favorite novelists although...seems entirely self-invented. Named Knut Pedersen, the fourth in a family...could write...
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    Representation of Consciousness in Pan: Knut Hamsun as Modernist, in Symposium » Read Now

    by David J. Mickelsen. 12 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...REPRESENTATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN PAN: KNUT HAMSUN AS MODERNIST AS THE REVOLUTIONS...of fiction was the Norwegian Knut Hamsun. He was one of the first...
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    Six Scandinavian Novelists: Lie, Jacobsen, Heidenstam, Selma Lagerlof, Hamsun, Sigrid Undset » Read Now

    by Alrik Gustafson. 374 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Lagerlof, Sigrid Undset, and Knut Hamsun are as familiar to the average...since Tolstoy and Dostoievski, Knut Hamsun and Selma Lagerlof and Sigrid...everything that Selma...
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    A History of Norwegian Literature (1956) (Information on Hamsun begins on p.271) » Read Now

    by Harald Beyer. 376 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...the Poetic Edda , and the skalds, to Ibsen, Bjornson, Hamsun Sigrid Undset, and Olav Duun. This study brings the story...251 Critics and Storytellers 265 Hamsun and Kinck...
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    A History of Norwegian Literature (1993) ("Knut Hamsun" p. 184) » Read Now

    by Harald S. Naess. 440 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    "An excellent comprehensive one-volume introduction in English to Norwegian literature within its historical context."-ChoiceLong under the cultural domination of Denmark and the political hegemony of Sweden, Norway first defined itself through its literature and continues to do so to our day. A...
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    105 Greatest Living Authors Present the World's Best Stories, Humor, Drama, Biography, History, Essays, Poetry ("The Wonderful New Machine" from Hamsun's novel "Growth of the Soil" p. 852) » Read Now

    by Whit Burnett. 1186 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...novel unit 841 KNUT HAMSUN: The Wonderful New Machine novel...de la Mare Eng. 300 34. Knut Hamsun Nor. 293 35. Andre Maurois...Silone, novelist. Norway : Knut Hamsun...
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    The Nobel Prize Winners in Literature (Chap. XIII "Knut Hamsun and His Novels of Norwegian Life") » Read Now

    by Annie Russell Marble. 316 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Barrett H. Clark, and studies of Knut Hamsun by Josef Wiehr and Hanna Arstrup...205 XIII. KNUT HAMSUN AND HIS NOVELS OF NORWEGIAN LIFE...ROMAIN ROLLAND 176 KNUT HAMSUN 214...
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    An Introduction to Scandinavian Literature: From the Earliest Time to Our Day (Information on Hamsun begins on p. 228) » Read Now

    by Elias Bredsdorff, Brita Mortensen, Ronald Popperwell. 245 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...An Introduction to SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE An Introduction to SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO OUR DAY By Elias Bredsdorff, M.A. Lecturer in...
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    Cyclopedia of World Authors (Information on Hamsun begins on p. 476) » Read Now

    by Frank N. Magill, Dayton Kohler. 1204 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...CYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD AUTHORS CYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD AUTHORS Original title : MASTERPLOTS CYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD AUTHORS Edited by FRANK N. MAGILL Associate...
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    The Riddle Solved: Cora Sandel's "En Gate", in Studies in Short Fiction » Read Now

    by Ellen Rees. 9 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen and Knut Hamsun. In the short story "The Blank...implications of the blank page or letter, Knut Hamsun describes the psychology of the...Oslo: Det...
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    The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought » Read Now

    by William R. Everdell. 508 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    A lively and accessible history of Modernism, The First Moderns is filled with portraits of genius, and intellectual breakthroughs, that richly evoke the fin-de-siegrave;cle atmosphere of Paris, Vienna, St. Louis, and St. Petersburg. William Everdell offers readers an invigorating look at the...
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    The Reader's Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia of World Literature and the Arts » Read Now

    by William Rose Benet. 1252 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...THE READERS ENCYCLOPEDIA An Encyclopedia of World Literature and the Arts Edited by WILLIAM ROSE BENET THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY NEW YORK Copyright 1948 by...
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    The American Spirit in Europe: A Survey of Transatlantic Influences » Read Now

    by Halvdan Koht. 289 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...THE AMERICAN SPIRIT IN EUROPE Publications of THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE UNIVERSITY OF OSLO In cooperation with the DEPARTMENT OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION Graduate School of...

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