Look Back on Happiness by Knut Hamsun
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"Look Back on Happiness" by Knut Hamsun is a novel published in 1912. The third book in Hamsun's "wanderer trilogy," it follows an aging narrator who retreats to a cabin in the woods, seeking solitude and peace in nature. Yet his attempt to distance himself from human connection unravels when he meets the charming Solem and Miss Thorsen. Unable to acknowledge his true feelings, the narrator deceives himself about what he truly
wants, leading to inevitable misfortune in this meditation on aging and self-delusion. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Hamsun, Knut, 1859-1952 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Wiking, Paula |
| Uniform Title | Siste glæde. English |
| Title | Look Back on Happiness |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Joy |
| Credits |
Produced by Eric Eldred, Robert Connal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 82.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Norway -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 8445 |
| Release Date | Jul 1, 2005 |
| Last Update | Sep 8, 2014 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 438 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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