Sult [Hunger]
by HAMSUN, Knut
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Lebanon, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
København [Copenhagen]: P.G. Philipsens Forlag, 1890. First edition. 8vo. [4], 333, [1] pp. Contemporary half sheep and marbled boards; binding rubbed, early ownership signature to title-page, toned First edition of this highly influential semi-autobiographical novel about a humiliated and impoverished writer in Oslo. A precursor to so much of the literature of alienation and consciousness of the 20th century. In his introduction to a 1967 edition of Hunger Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun. Hamsun won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bull's Head Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100597
- Title
- Sult [Hunger]
- Author
- HAMSUN, Knut
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- P.G. Philipsens Forlag
- Place of Publication
- København [Copenhagen]
- Date Published
- 1890
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ABAA-NY
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- First Edition
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