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Availability:In StockContributor:Henrik Pontoppidan, Paul Larkin (Translator)Publish date:2025-06-10Pages:168
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681379296ISBN-10:1681379295UPC:9781681379296Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Dystopian, ClassicsBook Topic:DenmarkWeight:0.8113Product ID:SCDD0X2D0A
The White Bear
Love, faith, and the political mingle in these two short novels by a Nobel Prize-winning Danish author. One about a young couple making a new life in Rome, the other about a priest who goes to live among native peoples in Greenland, both books explore the reaches of the human heart through their complex and unforgettable characters. Henrik Pontoppidan, the Danish Nobel laureate, is admired for...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681379296ISBN-10:1681379295UPC:9781681379296Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Dystopian, ClassicsBook Topic:DenmarkWeight:0.8113Product ID:SCDD0X2D0A
Henrik Pontoppidan (1857-1943) was one of Denmark's great realist writers, a member of the Modern Breakthrough movement whose works are often compared to those of Honor? de Balzac and ?mile Zola. The son of a clergyman, he studied engineering in Copenhagen but then left to become a teacher and writer. For his numerous novels and short stories, he won the 1917 Nobel Prize for Literature. Paul...
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