Knut Hamsun
Born
in Lom, Gudbrandsdal, Norway
August 04, 1859
Died
February 19, 1952
Genre
Influences
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Hunger
801 editions
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published
1890
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Growth of the Soil
164 editions
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published
1917
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Pan
326 editions
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published
1894
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Mysteries
173 editions
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published
1892
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Victoria
200 editions
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published
1898
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The Wanderer
143 editions
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published
1909
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On Overgrown Paths
by
14 editions
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published
1949
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Under the Autumn Star
by
46 editions
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published
1906
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Wayfarers
27 editions
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published
1927
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Dreamers
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113 editions
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published
1904
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“...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.”
― Hunger
― Hunger
“I love three things, I then say. I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth.
And which do you love best?
The dream.”
― Pan
And which do you love best?
The dream.”
― Pan
“I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all. I put my legs up on the bench and leaned back, the best way to feel the true well-being of seclusion. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thought could reach. I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.”
― Hunger
― Hunger
Polls
February 2017 Old School Classic Poll
Hard Times by Charles Dickens, 1854, 353 pages
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, 1478, 504 pages
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, 1826, 410 pages
Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, 1782, 448 pages
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 1842, 464 pages
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1862, 455 pages
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, 1862, 244 pages
The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner, 1883, 304 pages
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun, 1892, 348 pages
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