About this title: "I have noticed that sometimes I frighten people; what they really fear is themselves. They think it is I who scare them, but it is the dwarf within them, the ape-faced manlike being who sticks up his head from the depths of their souls." Par Lagerkvist's richly philosophical novel "The Dwarf" is an exploration of individual and social identity. ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hill & Wang, New York
Date Published: c. 1945
Description: Good. Translated from Swedish by Alexandra Dick. No printing date, but after 1951 since cover states that it won the 1951 Nobel Prize for Literature. Cover is rubbed (mostly at spine), and has a couple of folds; pages toning a bit; otherwise unmarked. read more
Edition: No Edition Stated
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Hill & Wang, New York
Description: Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Some creasing to wraps. Fading to spine. Small tear at bottom of spine. Light shelf wear. Solid copy with clean pages. read more
Edition: Reprint Edition / Later Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Hill and Wang / The Noonday Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780374631352ISBN:0374631352
Description: Good+ No Jacket Issued. "The Dwarf, first publish in 1945, is widely considered to be his greatest novel. " from the back cover. This is a soft cover trade paperback edition. Reprint edition, later printing. The condition is Good+. This book has a clean & bright cover with a corner fold line. The spine is smooth with nice tight pages. These pages are clean, bright and white. The pages are unmarked. No names. The back inside cover has writing. 228 pages. read more
Description: Good. FOURTH PRINTING. A NICE edition, USEFUL! Light scuff to the paperback cover and the page edge, this book is in PRESENTABLE condition. read more
Edition: 6th printing, paperback edition.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Hill & Wang, New York
Date Published: 1945
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Moderate spine sun-fade. Minor edgewear. Clean, square, unmarked inside. 288 p. Cover different than pictured: Red with white titles. Author profile portrait on back, red-toned photo. Winner, 1951 Nobel Prize for Literature, author, b. 1891 in southern Sweden, was a playwright, poet, essayist, novelist. His works exhibit a moral and artistic intensity. The Dwarf character is inately evil, a quality in each of us. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Date Published: 1958
ISBN-13:9780374521356ISBN:0374521352
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Some damage and wear. I ship promptly and package carefully. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"I've never read anything by Lagerkvist, but knew he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature in the early 1950s. I was browsing the shelves at my public library and decided to check him out. I ddn't know what his other writing is like, but this was a really amazing book. It's only about 200 pages and his style allows you to breeze through the narrative quickly. I would describe the story as something like a fable, told from the perspective of a 26 inch dwarf who is something like a "fool"-type character to a Prince during the Renaissance period in Italy. If you're interested in the subject of the presence of "evil" in human nature, this is the book for you. On the surface, it's really a simply-told story that teenagers might like, but I can't stop thinking about it days later. I found it to be a really chilling tale of the dark part of our nature. Makes me want to read more of this author."
"Watching from the sidelines of the corrupt court of a Renaissance king, the Prince's dwarf, Piccoline, a vicious misanthropist who thinks himself of another race, inveighs against humanity.
Masterful, lapidary prose. Lagerkvist won the Nobel Prize in 1951.
"I understand the Princess better than I do him, and that is not so remarkable, for after all I hate her. It is difficult to understand those whom one does not hate, for then one is unarmed, one has nothing with which to penetrate into their being."
"Human beings need flattery; otherwise they do not fulfill their purpose, not even in their own eyes. And both the present and the past contain much that is beautiful and noble which, without due praise, would have been neither noble nor beautiful.""
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