Pan by Knut Hamsun

"Pan" by Knut Hamsun is a novel written in 1894. Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, a solitary hunter living in a forest hut, falls into a passionate but misunderstood romance with Edvarda, a merchant's daughter from a nearby town. As the seasons shift from spring to autumn, their incompatible worlds—nature versus culture—collide, leading Glahn through a series of tragedies. The novel explores the tensions between isolation and society, and the devastating consequences of love between two people who cannot truly understand each other. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Hamsun, Knut, 1859-1952
Author of introduction, etc. Björkman, Edwin, 1866-1951
Translator Worster, W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander), 1882-1929
Title Pan
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(novel)
Credits Text file produced by Tim Becker, Eric Eldred, Charles Franks, and
the Online Distributed Team
HTML file produced by David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 91.9 (5th grade). Very easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Norway -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 7214
Release Date
Last Update Feb 26, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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