One of Life's Slaves by Jonas Lie
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"One of Life's Slaves" by Jonas Lie is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story revolves around the struggles and life experiences of its main character, Nikolai, who grapples with the burdens of poverty, illegitimacy, and societal expectations in Christiania. It explores themes of suffering, identity, and the harsh realities faced by those at the margins of society. The opening of the novel introduces us to Nikolai's mother, Barbara,
a strong but ill-fitted woman who becomes a nurse in the city to support her son, whom she struggles to care for in a broken home. As the story unfolds, we see Barbara's sacrifices and hardships, and the early hints of how the environment and social conditions shape Nikolai's identity. Barbara's emotional turmoil leads her to make difficult choices for the sake of survival, and the reader is pulled into her world of hardship and compromise, setting the stage for Nikolai's future struggles as a product of his upbringing. The details of their life establish a haunting atmosphere of desperation that illustrates the novel's exploration of fate and societal constraints. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Lie, Jonas, 1833-1908 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Muir, Jessie |
| LoC No. | 34037782 |
| Uniform Title | Livsslaven. English |
| Title | One of Life's Slaves |
| Note | Translation of: Livsslaven |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Clare Boothby, Jim Wiborg, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 77.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Norway -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 15853 |
| Release Date | May 18, 2005 |
| Last Update | Dec 14, 2020 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 443 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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