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Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
$26.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature. When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the No ...Show more
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
$27.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin world literature
One of the first modernist novels First published in Norway in 1890, "Hunger"probes into the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions. For more than seventy years, Penguin h ...Show more
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
$23.95 AUD
Category: Classics
A compelling journey into the mind of a young writer who is driven by starvation to constantly fluctuating extremes of euphoria and despair.
MYSTERIES by HAMSUN KNUT
$34.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
In a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling stranger named Johan Nagel arrives. With an often brutal insight into human nature, Nagel draws out the townsfolk, exposing their darkest instincts and suppressed desires. At once arrogant and unassuming, ...Show more
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
"Mysteries"(1892) is the story of Johan Nilsen Nagel, a mysterious stranger who suddenly turns up in a small Norwegian town one summer-and just as suddenly disappears. Nagel is a complete outsider, a sort of modern Christ treated in a spirit of near parody. He condemns the politics and thought of the ag ...Show more
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