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Hunger
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Title: Hunger
Author: Knut Hamsun
Release Date: June, 2005 [EBook #8387] [This file was first posted on July 6, 2003]
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Language: English
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HUNGER
by KNUT HAMSUN
Translated from the Norwegian by GEORGE EGERTON
With an introduction by Edwin Bjorkman
Knut Hamsun
Since the death of Ibsen and Strindberg, Hamsun is undoubtedly the foremost creative writer of the Scandinavian countries. Those approaching most nearly to his position are probably Selma Lagerlöf in Sweden and Henrik Pontoppidan in Denmark. Both these, however, seem to have less than he of that