The Pilot and His Wife (Classic Reprint) - Rilegato

Lie, Jonas

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ISBN 10: 0483837210 ISBN 13: 9780483837218

Casa editrice: Forgotten Books, 2018

Riassunto

Excerpt from The Pilot and His Wife

It is in many respects a great advantage to an author to have been born in a country where there is such an abundance of fallow land, which the aggressive literature of our century has not yet utilized. The late Mr. Schulze, in his admirable sketches Fm Lofoten 0g Soloer, startled the Scandinavian public by his revelations of all the wealth of picturesqueness and primitive quaintness of manner which still lay hidden in the remote fjord and fishing districts of Norway. Jonas Lie, like Mr. Schulze, spent many years of his youth as the deputy of a judge in these half-arctic regions, and he has thus had abundant opportunity to study this strange life in its pathetic as well as in its humorous aspects. It is the result of these studies which he has presented to the public in his previous tales; and, in The Pilot and his Wife, although he there moves the scene far ther southward, it is still the same grim, barren, and.

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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0483837210
• ISBN 13: 9780483837218
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 344
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