GROWTH OF THE SOIL.

by HAMSUN, Knut.

$1,098 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

London,: Gyldendal,, 1920. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket.. Hardcover Hardcover. Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 406. Attractive decadent bookplate of L. A. Shilcof to the front free end paper- an image from Salome by Aubrey Beardsley. First edition in English of one of Hamsun's first works to be translated into EnglishÑ""the novel that earned him the Nobel Prize for literature""Ñ published the same year he won the Nobel, in original green cloth, lettered black on spine and front cover. A fount of literary modernism, HamsunÑto whom Mann, Wells, Gorky, Hesse, Musil, Stein, Kafka, Gide, Brecht, Buber, Hemingway and Henry Miller, among many others, gratefully genuflectedÑhad, long before Joyce, laid bare the consciousness of the artist forging his soul in search of community"" (Gidden, Warning Shadows). To many, Hamsun ""almost single handedly created the modern psychological novel"" (Encyclopedia of the Novel, 583). H. G. Wells early praised 'Growth of the Soil' as ""one of the very greatest novels I have ever read."" Slight wear, otherwise sound, near very good. Rebacked at spine with original spine showing slight loss at tips. Not dated, like the British Museum copy.

• Publisher: Gyldendal,
• Year: 1920
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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