Word: grimstad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Knut Hamsun, 69, is a onetime shoemaker's apprentice, coal-heaver, schoolteacher, road-mender, farmhand, trolley conductor, fisherman. Twice he has visited the U. S. Now he lives with his family on an estate near Grimstad, Norway...
This Ibsen girl, as the glum apothecary of Grimstad made her, is a relentless person, chilled of blood, chiseled of expression. She marries George Tesman because, as she reluctantly admits, her day is done. Tesman, an ultimate conception of the paperbound pedagog, is counting upon a professorship to offset Hedda's extravagances, when he learns that Eilert Lovborg, his onetime friend, has renounced debauchery, published a history of civilization, and may be regarded as a competitor for the professorship. Lovborg, however, reassures George that he is satisfied with his moral victory over vicious diversion...