Wayfarers Free Download PDF By Knut Hamsun
| Title | : | Wayfarers |
| Author | : | Knut Hamsun |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 460 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0285649078 |
In this Norwegian saga of restlessness, Hamsun presents young Edevart, a headstrong boy ill at ease with books, but fiercely self determined and eager to escape his poor village of Polden He becomes a close friend of August, a man orphan, rootless, who sings fantastic tales of a wondrous world In their years of seafaring, peddling, and raucous raising sometimes together In this Norwegian saga of restlessness, Hamsun presents young Edevart, a headstrong boy ill at ease with books, but fiercely self determined and eager to escape his poor village of Polden He becomes a close friend of August, a man orphan, rootless, who sings fantastic tales of a wondrous world In their years of seafaring, peddling, and raucous raising sometimes together, sometimes separated Edevart grows in understanding, becoming a cunning businessman, experiencing the exhilaration and devastation of love and learning to enjoy the freedom of his wandering lifestyle Nobel Prize winner Hamsun expertly weaves the clashing ideologies the draw of a comfortable home and the excitement of adventure and the sea with Edevart s own picaresque, as it drifts between restlessness and a peaceful happiness
about Author
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920 for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil He insisted that the intricacies of the human mind ought to be the main object of modern literature, to describe the whisper of the blood, and the pleading of the bone marrow Hamsun pursued his literary program, debuting in 1890 with the psychological novel Hunger.
Hunger
Growth of the Soil
Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers
Mysteries
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In this Norwegian saga of restlessness, Hamsun presents young Edevart, a headstrong boy ill at ease with books, but fiercely self determined and eager
460 pagesKnut Hamsun
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