About this title: Johannes, a young Norwegian writer, falls deeply in love with Victoria, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. Himself of working-class origins and far from established as an artist, Johannes cannot hope to marry someone so far above him socially. Victoria, for her part, is ambivalent, alternating in her moods between affection and contempt. Strongly autobiographical in its subject-matter, VICTORIA expresses both Hamsun's sensitivities as a writer and his frustrations as a man.
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Description: Very Good. 0285647598 Very Good Condition **Softcover**--Exactly as pictured--EXACT ISBN MATCH--cover has very minor shelf wear at tips of corners only. No Spine Creasing, No personalizations, No marks in the text at all. Tight and well bound. Ships Quickly-IN STOCK-Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sun & Moon Press
Date Published: 2000-10-01
ISBN-13:9781557131775ISBN:1557131775
Description: Very Good. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Covers show minor shelf wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Free Delivery Confirmation! Ships same or next business day! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780285647596ISBN:0285647598
Description: Good. 1974 edition. Different cover picture No major defects-unabridged, clean, complete, not falling apart; some light wear. A perfectly good reading or reference copy. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780285647596ISBN:0285647598
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Souvenir, London
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780285647596ISBN:0285647598
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. No marks on pages. Text in English, Norwegian. 176p.; 20 cm. This translation originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969; London: Souvenir, 1974. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780143039372ISBN:0143039377
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Edition: First Edition / Second Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Sun & Moon Pr, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9781557131775ISBN:1557131775
Description: Near Fine. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Hint of edge and corner wear, gently scuffed and scratched, overall a very crisp and clean first paperback edition! 155 very fine, unmarked and uncreased pages. "Generally recognized as one of Knut Hamsun's greatest works, Victoria was originally published in 1898, and represents the first of Sun & Moon's seslections in its reevaluation of fin de siecle literature, which it will publish over the next five years of our own fin de siecle. " read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 2005-11-29
ISBN-13:9780143039372ISBN:0143039377
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: 9780143039372. read more
Description: ISBN. Mass Market Paperback. First Printing. Tight sound unmarked copy in very good condition with some browning to the interior pages and a slight spine fade. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Sun & Moon Press, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9781557131775ISBN:1557131775
Description: As New. FINE stated 1st printing thus (paperback re-issue) in color pictorial wrappers. read more
Binding: Unknown Binding
Publisher: A. A. Knopf
Date Published: 1923
Description: Good. Paperback. Publisher Paul List Victoria, written in German (Die Geschichte einer Liebe), Publisher Paul List Verlag Munchen, dated 1948 Some cover wear, pages good, binding good some cover wear, pages okay. read more
"A simple, torturous little book. A friend of mine summed it up best so I will plagiarize completely: Victoria is about two people who love each other so profoundly that all they can do is hurt one another.
In high school, much teenage drama comes from little spurns and cold shoulders-she didn't talk to me at the party, he wasn't listening when we talked on the phone, he was late to dinner, etc. Instead of starting as cafeteria gossip and dying when we grow older, these sorts of innocent rejections actually become more personal and painful as we grow up-and they're even harder to explain. Sure, people often hurt one another in broad strokes with cheating and lying and the such, but what sticks are the off-handed looks that speak the truth we're too often afraid to admit.
Hamsun understands this, and the trick of Victoria is making us believe in the irrational behavior of its heroes, Johannes and Victoria. They try to make one another jealous, they deny each other constantly, and yet they're irrevocably, even painfully in love. It's real short, but completely crushing and believable: middle school writ large in 19th century Norway."
"More like 3.5 stars. This book grew on me. But you can only read so many tales of enduring star-crossed love at first sight without wondering why these characters remain so attached to one another."
"Suppose you met someone when you were young, and something happened that convinced you beyond reasonable doubt that they loved you, and you loved them. And then, suppose that there were all sorts of practical problems, and that, on the rare occasions when you did meet them, you said the wrong thing, or they said the wrong thing, and people were hurt, or lost their tempers, and you started to wonder if you'd just hallucinated it all. And that this continued for your whole life.
Well, if you've ever had that kind of experience, you might like Victoria, a long, elegantly written prose-poem which pretty much does for hopeless love what Hunger does for being hungry. Wrap it up with a red bow, and give it to a carefully selected person as an unusual Valentine..."
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