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Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature. When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the No ...Show more
Hamsun's Hunger by Knut Hamsun , Tore Rem, Terence Cave
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This new translation seeks to restore the startling freshness and epidermal unease of Hamsun's breakthrough story of 1890. It remains faithful to the style and voice of the text, the shifts of tense, the indirect free style, and the constant changes of register as the inner monologue moves between poeti ...Show more
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A compelling journey into the mind of a young writer who is driven by starvation to constantly fluctuating extremes of euphoria and despair.
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
$28.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
"Mysteries"(1892) is the story of Johan Nilsen Nagel, a mysterious stranger who suddenly turns up in a small Norwegian town one summer-and just as suddenly disappears. Nagel is a complete outsider, a sort of modern Christ treated in a spirit of near parody. He condemns the politics and thought of the ag ...Show more
Mysteries - Classic Edition by Knut Hamsun; Gerry Bothmer (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Knut Hamsun founded the modernist and postmodernist novel at once' writes James Wood in his introduction to this seminal work by a Nobel Prize-winning writer who has been recognised as one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century.A young man called John Nagel arrives to spend a summer ...Show more
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