Look Back on Happiness
by Knut Hamsun
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Very Good-
- Seller
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Neenah, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
A little fading and age-darkening, but binding completely tight, all pages bright and readable.
Knut Hamsun's famous mature work, written toward the end of his prolific 50-year writing career, a more philosophical treatment of many of the themes he dealt with in his work, as well as his contemplation of modernism. It was written just before he rather tragically became involved with the Nazi party. Hamsun (1859-1952) was an adventurer-writer born into poverty in Lom, Norway, whose complex, subjective, psychological and stream-of-consciousness style and innovative technique profoundly influenced virtually all of 20th century fiction. He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1920 for Growth of the Soil.
Knut Hamsun's famous mature work, written toward the end of his prolific 50-year writing career, a more philosophical treatment of many of the themes he dealt with in his work, as well as his contemplation of modernism. It was written just before he rather tragically became involved with the Nazi party. Hamsun (1859-1952) was an adventurer-writer born into poverty in Lom, Norway, whose complex, subjective, psychological and stream-of-consciousness style and innovative technique profoundly influenced virtually all of 20th century fiction. He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1920 for Growth of the Soil.
Synopsis
Not because I am offended about anything, or very unhappy about men's evil ways; but since the forest will not come to me, I must go to it. That is all. I have not gone this time as a slave and a vagabond. I have money enough and am overfed, stupefied with success and good fortune, if you understand that. I have left the world as a sultan leaves rich food and harems and flowers, and clothes himself in a hair shirt.
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Details
- Seller
- Setton Book Collection (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 136
- Title
- Look Back on Happiness
- Author
- Knut Hamsun
- Format/Binding
- Black cloth with dust jacket; a little tearing on top front of dust jacket, a little age-darkening and fading.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Coward-Mcann, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Modernist literature, Neo-Romanticism, anti-realism, Norwegian new realism, Norwegian literature, psychological realism, 20th-century fiction
- Size
- 8 3/8" x 5 3/4"
Terms of Sale
Setton Book Collection
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About the Seller
Setton Book Collection
Biblio member since 2019
Neenah, Wisconsin
About Setton Book Collection
European history, with a loose focus on the late medieval/early Renaissance period, including the Crusades; some first or contemporary editions from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries; some scholarly works in English, French, German, Italian, Modern Greek, Catalan, Russian.Some works from the libraries of Reeve Shley at Ripplebrook; John L. La Monte; Kenneth M. Setton; Howard Ellison Whitney; Wilhelmina, Duchess of Cleveland; Washington Shirley, 9th Earl Ferrers, Joseph Harrison Brazier; Duke Georg Alexander of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.Also some exotic Americana and other eclectic gems that have serendipitously popped up over the years."I just wanted to say that the service and quality of the book received from 'Setton Book Collection' was exceptional. I am very pleased with the book: A Narrative of the Conversion and Death of Count Struensee. 5 star service all the way.Best Regards,Pete,London, England13 October 2020
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.