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Hunger

by Knut Hamsun

Hunger Cover

ISBN13: 9780374525286
ISBN10: 0374525285
Condition: Standard
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Publisher Comments:

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Originally published in 1890, this classic of modern literature follows an impoverished Norwegian writer through the streets of Christiania (now Olso) as he struggles on the edge of starvation. Existing on what little money he makes from selling the occasional article to the local paper, and down to pawning the clothes on his back, the young writer slowly loses control of his reason and begins to slip increasingly into bouts of madness, paranoia, and despair.

A gripping portrait of an artist struggling for integrity, Hunger mirrors the dire straits of Hamsun's own life when he brought this, his then incomplete first novel, to a publisher in 1888.

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About the Author

Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) was a Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. His other works include Pan, Women at the Pump, and Mysteries.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780374525286
Subtitle:
A Novel
Translator:
Bly, Robert W.
Translator:
Bly, Robert
Introduction:
Auster, Paul
Author:
Hamsun, Knut
Introduction:
Auster, Paul
Author:
Bly, Robert W.
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Novels and novellas
Subject:
Continental european
Subject:
Depression, mental
Subject:
Genius
Subject:
Oslo
Subject:
Autobiographical fiction
Subject:
Authors, Norwegian.
Subject:
Classics
Edition Number:
Rev. ed.
Edition Description:
Revised
Series Volume:
AR-3
Publication Date:
19980228
Binding:
TP
Language:
English
Pages:
240
Dimensions:
8.24x5.58x.75 in. .53 lbs.
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