REBECCA WEST in _The New Statesman_.
“... indescribably calm and tremendous ... so entirely human, that we
cannot skip one line ... the critical faculty abdicates and there is
nothing left but words of praise ... whatever else Knut Hamsun may have
written should be translated with the least possible delay.”--HENRY
BAERLEIN in the Christmas number of _The Bookman_.
“New novels of lasting value have been very rare of late. Here, at
least, is one.”--_Review of Reviews._
PAN
Crown 8vo, cloth =A Love Story= =7s. 6d. net=
“Exquisite ... the more one reads the book the more one realises its
witchery. It is one of the few pieces of contemporary fiction which is
worthy of a place in the most select library.”--_Country Life._
“‘Pan’ will serve to increase the warmth of welcome which ‘Growth of
the Soil’ has already won.... The introduction of a new note into
literature ... an extraordinary fascination.”
_Daily Telegraph._
“A great novel ... a merciless piece of self-revelation ... a book that
has few equals in any literature.”--_Evening Standard._
“Simple and powerful ... strong and absorbing in its insight into the
vital springs of human passion.”--_Scotsman._
“This beautiful work.”--_Glasgow Herald._
“A love story of a most unusual type, with a rare, wistful charm ... a
book which no reader should miss.”--_Weekly Dispatch._
“Is marked by flashes of rare poetic beauty ... a wonderful bit of
literary craftsmanship.”--_Aberdeen Free Press._
Egholm and his God
=By JOHANNES BUCHHOLTZ= (Danish)
Translated by W. WORSTER, M.A.
_Crown_ 8_vo_ _Cloth_ =8/6 _net_=
Buchholtz is one of the most original of modern Danish writers. His
characters are creations of great imaginative power and human interest;
he brings before us a gallery of varied personages; quaint and yet
true to life as those of Dickens. And he shows a great fertility of
invention in contriving for them the most amazing situations.
* * * * *
The story of Egholm, the fantastic enthusiast and inventor, his
conflict with the remarkable “Brotherhood” in one little town, and
his extraordinary achievements and failures in another, is one of the
author’s best, rich in humour and full of unexpected developments.
* * * * *
The book is one that should appeal to every class of reader.
The Promised Isle
=By LAURIDS BRUUN= (Danish)
Translated by DAVID PRITCHARD
_Crown 8vo_ _Cloth_ =7/6 _net_=
In this book, Laurids Bruun draws once more upon the papers of his
imaginary friend “Van Zanten,” whose “Happy Days” on Pelli Island
formed the output of the first of this series.
* * * * *
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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