Constance Ring
10 best books like Constance Ring (Amalie Skram): Hunger, To søstre, An Enemy of the People, Victoria, Gift, Jenny, The District Governor's Daughters, Synnøve Solbakken, Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit, Niels Lyhne
| 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...
This is an alternative cover edition for ISBN 9788248916826.
Historien om to ungjenter fra Bærum som reiser til Syria og en desperat far som forsøker å finne dem. En oktoberdag i 2013 kommer ikke de to tenåringsjentene, Ayan og Leila, hjem til vanlig tid. Senere på kvelden kommer sjokkmeldingen:...
| 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 | 0285647598 |
you would think i would have sopped this thing up with a hunk of bread: doomed lovers, the impossibility of communication, the way we hurt the ones we love? that should have karen's stamp of approval all over it.
but it's like hamsun took a great idea for literary exploration and then constructed...
| Author | Alexander L. Kielland |
Mensa rotunda, svarte lille Marius og døde. Sitatet er et av høydepunktene i historien om skolegutten som dør av for meget latin, og som kanskje er blitt den mest kjente av alle norske skolehistorier. Den er et oppgjør med den autoritære pugg, karakter og konkurranseskolen, med konfirmasjonspresset...
When Jenny was first published in 1911, Undset found herself called immoral — “this is a side of the free, artistic life that the vast majority of citizens would rather not know.” The novel tells the story of Jenny Winge, a talented Norwegian painter who goes to Rome to seek artistic inspiration...
| 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 | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson |
| ISBN | 0559967349 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit
| Author | Delphine de Vigan |
| ISBN | 2709635798 |
La douleur de Lucile, ma mère, a fait partie de notre enfance et plus tard de notre vie d’adulte, la douleur de Lucile sans doute nous constitue, ma sœur et moi, mais toute tentative d’explication est vouée à l’échec. L’écriture n’y peut rien, tout au plus me permet-elle de poser les...
| Author | Jens Peter Jacobsen |
| ISBN | 1598183451 |
Jacobsen's immediate importance was his status as the 'writer of his generation.' With the novel Niels Lyhne (1880) he voiced the disoriented and confused rejection of the old values, Romanticism's dream and religion. . . . Like the single volume of short stories Jacobsen published in 1882, three...
