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...stroke, some thought they knew the reason. For years his countrymen had loved his books (Hunger, Growth of the Soil, The Road Leads On). But now those books, which had once nudged bibles on Norwegian bookshelves, were boycotted; dog-eared copies were even trickling back to Hamsun at Grimstad. Last week, though Hamsun had since recovered from his stroke, the trickle of books swelled to a river. Though the local post office hired extra help, they still could not deliver all the thousands of Hamsun volumes winging home to roost. Grim-faced citizens volunteered to help deliver them: they carted...
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...