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Lisbeth Longfrock, by Hans Aanrud
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Title: Lisbeth Longfrock
Author: Hans Aanrud
Illustrator: Othar Holmboe
Translator: Laura E. Poulsson
Release Date: August 18, 2008 [EBook #26348]
Language: English
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[Illustration: LISBETH LONGFROCK]
LISBETH LONGFROCK
TRANSLATED FROM THE NORWEGIAN OF HANS AANRUD
BY
LAURA E. POULSSON
ILLUSTRATED BY
OTHAR HOLMBOE
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PREFACE
Hans Aanrud's short stories are considered by his own countrymen as belonging to the most original and artistically finished life pictures that have been produced by the younger literati of Norway. They are generally concerned with peasant character, and present in true balance the coarse and fine in peas