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Author	Knut Hamsun
ISBN	0486431681

One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary history with the publication in 1890 of this powerful, autobiographical novel recounting the abject poverty, hunger and despair of a young writer struggling to achieve self-discovery and its ultimate...

Author	Henrik Ibsen
ISBN	1420927957

Ghosts is the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her deceased husband and by her son who has inherited syphilis from his philandering father. Ghosts is a scathing indictment of Victorian society in which Ibsen refutes the notion that if one simply fulfills one's duty...

Author	Henrik Ibsen
ISBN	1595406441

In An Enemy of the People, Ibsen places his main characters, Dr. Thomas Stockman, in the role of an enlightened and persecuted minority of one confronting an ignorant, powerful majority. When the physician learns that the famous and financially successful baths in his hometown are contaminated,...

Author	Knut Hamsun
ISBN	0141180676

I went into the café and sat down in the corner. I prefer to sit there. I took out my book and opened it. After a while, I looked up and saw that one of the waitresses was standing behind me. I realised she had been there for some time. She was a pretty brunette who looked about twenty.

- Excuse me, I said....

Author	Cora Sandel
ISBN	0720612632

Cora Sandel was one of the most important Scandinavian writers of the 20th century and this is the second volume in her richly acclaimed Alberta trilogy. Alberta Selmer escapes from her cold suffocating provincial life in Norway to seek out the summer riches in Paris: a city where the bohemians will...

Author	Henrik Ibsen
ISBN	0413775755

Vildanden = The Wild Duck, Henrik Ibsen
The Wild Duck an 1884 play, by the Norwegian playwright: Henrik Ibsen. Characters: Håkon Werle, a wholesale merchant; Gregers Werle, his son; Old Ekdal, the former business partner of Håkon Werle; Hjalmar Ekdal, Old Ekdal's son, a photographer; Gina...

Author	Ludvig Holberg
ISBN	1419127454

Jeppe på berget (original Jeppe paa Bierget) är en komedi av Ludvig Holberg, skriven 1722.

Den stackars försupne Jeppe har det inte så lätt; hans fru Nille slår honom och är otrogen med klockaren. En dag när Jeppe som vanligt supit sig full och somnat på gödselhögen blir han upptäckt...

Author	Camilla Collett
ISBN	1870041178

My feelings when reading this book went from "Wow this actually is a very exciting book" to "this is so boring and hard to read, please make it stop" to "I don't want to put the book down" to "this is so tragic!"

I first tried to read the 1854 norwegian edition, but the language was hard to read so I got...

Author	Ludvig Holberg
ISBN	1425075169

Student kehrt zurück in Heimatdorf. Klugscheißt rum, wie schlau er ist. Benennt sich von Rasmus Berg in Erasmus Montanus um. Besteht drauf. Nervt alle mit seinem Neumalklugen-Gehabe.

Ungefähr so wie Rasmus Berg klang ich als Ersti und so klingen auch heute noch alle Erstis, wenn man sich...