Works by KNUT HAMSUN
(NORWEGIAN)
(NOBEL PRIZE, 1920)
GROWTH OF THE SOIL
Translated by W. WORSTER, M.A.
Crown 8vo Cloth 9s. net
“‘Growth of the Soil’ is a beautiful work of genius ... a triumphant exhibition of what can be done with an objective method by a proved master.”—Westminster Gazette.
“An absorbing story told with a marvellous simplicity.”
Times Literary Supplement.
“A picture of infinite tenderness and humanity.”—Daily Telegraph.
“Not for a long time have I been held fascinated by the development of a single human being in fiction as I am with this man Isak.”
Clement Shorter in The Sphere.
“Knut Hamsun ... is one of the creators, one of the Prometheans who have stolen fire from heaven. He has the godlike qualities that belong to the very great, the completest omniscience about human nature.”
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.