About this title: Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six women - including his young widowed aunt, a seductive free spirit, and his passionate cousin who marries his friend - his search for purpose becomes a yielding to disillusionment. One of Danish literature's greatest novels, ...
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Description: Good. Text in German. 12mo, 7 1/2, 228 pages, white cloth spine and blue boards. A good copy overall, spine cloth edges frayed top and bottom, fore-corner tips worn through; interior binding solid, paper moderately yellowed, with previous owner signature on the endpapers. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Aegypan Press, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781598183450ISBN:1598183451
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A very crisp and clean first Aegypan Press paperback edition, almost new and unread condition, gift quality! Color illustrated black wrapper with white lettering. 146 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages! "According to Johan de Mylius of the Danish Royal Library, Jens Peter Jacobsen was a 'poet associated with the so-called 'modern breakthrough' in Danish literature in the 1870s....Jacobsen's immediated importance was his status as the 'writer of his ... read more
Edition: 4th Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The American-Scandinavian Foundation, NY
Date Published: 1960
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 5 x 7 1/2. 284 page hardcover. Translated from the Danish by Hanna Astrup Larsen. Red cloth exterior with title on spine in gold and crest of American Scandinavian Foundation on front. Interior is unmarked, tight and clean. Scandinavian Classic series-Volume XIII. read more
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Jacobsen, J. P. / Nunnally, Tiina / Johannesson, Eric O. (Int)
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 2006-06-27
ISBN-13:9780143039815ISBN:0143039814
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780143039815. read more
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Jacobsen, J P; Larsen, Hanna Astrup: translated by
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Twayne Publishers & American-Scandinavian Foundation
Date Published: 1967
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. 244 pgs vg condition; inside front cover has a tear near the spine; library markings on outer edge of pages and on front endspiece. Mylar covered dj has library stickers; dark blue cover w/bright gold embossed lettering on spine which could be leather in fine condition read more
Description: New in New jacket. This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Gyldendalske boghandels forlag in Kjøbenhavn, 1899. This book is in Danish. This book contains 278 pages. Print on demand edition. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Filiquarian Publishing
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781599865850ISBN:1599865858
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Alan Rodgers Books
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781598183450ISBN:1598183451
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Jacobsen, Jens Peter Translator: Nunnally, Tiina
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780143039815ISBN:0143039814
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 240 pages. Niels lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. through his relationsh1ps with six women, his search for purpose becomes a yielding to disillusionment. this work is a translation that offers readers a chance to experience anew a writer deeply revered by rilke, ibsen, mann, and hesse. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Eugen Diederichs Verlag, Jena, Germany
Date Published: 1911
Description: Good Plus. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Flexible board covers lightly soiled, rubbed, bumped, endpapers faded around edges 302 pp. GERMAN TEXT. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mineerva Bogerne
Date Published: 1963
Description: Fair. Text in Danish. name pf previous owner in pen. some underlining and notes in pencil, spine crease, some light shelf wear rubbing of cover color, corner crease on back. read more
"This novel will not help you sleep at night. I haven't felt this kind of despair over literature since Proust's Recherche. Jacobsen despises his characters so tenderly. Or is it that he loves them ruthlessly? I finished it nearly ten hours ago, but an oppressive sadness is still lingering. It's not a cathartic sorrow, either -- not in the least bit; it's too stonily troubling for tears. In part, this can be blamed on my Christian upbringing, but I wont let my background take away any credit from Jacobsen's wrenching prose: parsing down his characters with such coldly precise understanding, then passionately coloring their delusions of beauty, making it seem like their adversities matter -- each time, I almost believe them, until he reminds me again I should know better.
I wasn't expecting this extent of comfortless tragedy from one of Rilke's recommendations, but it's added another dimension my appreciation for his poetry."
"One of my favorite books- I have read this at least a half-dozen times. Mesmerizing account of a man's struggle with love, atheism, death, and pursuit of knowledge."
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