Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780374513443ISBN:0374513449
Description: Good + Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall; The Wanderer by Hamsun, Knut. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975. Binding: Soft CoverDust Jacket: . NOTES: Stated first printing. Showing some exterior wear/creasing, overall clean and tight with no owner markings. Images available upon request. Please email us with any questions. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd
Date Published: 2001-04-30
ISBN-13:9780285647879ISBN:0285647873
Description: Fair. 1992 softcover with different cover art. Acceptable as reading copy. Light edgewear. Light foxing/tanning to page edges and endpapers. Name inside cover and underlining on a few pages. read more
Description: Acceptable. Ships from the UK. 1977, different publisher. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Edition: First American Edition.
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX., NY
Date Published: 1975
Description: New Translation by Oliver and Gunnvor Stallybrass. Near fine in an about fine dj. (A few specks of foxing at top edge. Some foxing to edges of cloth) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Souvenir Press, London
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780285647862ISBN:0285647865
Description: First edition. ISBN 0285647865. Hardcover, 8vo, [v]+285pp. Trace of faint spotting to fore edge all else VG in VG price clipped d/w. read more
Edition: 1st Edition/1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, NY
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780374286361ISBN:0374286361
Description: Very Good Minus in Very Good Minus jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. VG-. Thoroughly clean, very tight text; page edges slightly faded; binding is sound & square-tipped, but a couple of degrees cocked. White jacket has slight fading, but appears untorn under mylar cover. Usual library distinctions. read more
Description: Good. The front inside cover has writing on it and the front cover has dents at the bottom. Used-Good. Trinity City Books ships from the Dallas, Texas area daily, Mon-Fri and fully guarantee our products. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: MACMILLAN
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780330251501ISBN:0330251503
Description: Ex-Library Published by Macmillan in 1977. Paperback. Number of pages: 252. Ex. Library copy-usual stamps and marks. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. #8427811 Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
"I like to read Hamsun because he gives me insight into Norwegian culture and how people connect with nature. I understand that it is not one of his best works. I felt the book was really about the cultural/societal changes taking place in northern Europe in the early 1800's. The characters were symbolic of a cultural shift in attitudes; an end of the pioneer days moving into a more worldly global economy. A new horizon was unfolding. This was about how individuals and communities were feeling about change. Most of the reviews I read didn't seem to get his main point. If you like historical fiction and are interested in northern Europe, this is a good read. This inspired me to read more of his books."
"This is my least favorite out of the four by Hamsun I have read. As in most of what he wrote I think a lot of his personal screwiness comes through in the main character of the book. In this case its a man who spends his life roaming from town to town in Norway doing random labor for hire. He gets stalkerish obsessions with women who it is in innappropriate for him to have interest in, namely the wives of his employers. Mainly this book focuses on the main characters obsessions, manipulations and petty intrigues involving these women. The Wanderer isn't a bad book but its definitly not where you want to start if you want to read some of Hamsuns work."
""What one does must not be hopelessly at odds with what one is!"
"There's a large theatrical element in all of us; we feel flattered at being taken for more than we are."
"The very favor of receiving life at all is handsome advance payment for all life's miseries, each single one."
"I have no mission, no places I must visit; I am just a wanderer setting out from a logger's cabin and coming back to it again; it makes no difference where I am.""
"Much like the tone of a book by Giono (I'm sure Giono was well aware of Hamsun), this is a lovely, simple story about a wanderer and his interactions with people and nature. The sometimes surreal, magical imagery that crops up, and Hamsun's almost mystical descriptions of solitude, working with the land, and the joy of immersing oneself in forests, rivers, and mountains, makes it a wonderful, contemplative book. The characters themselves were a little thin, but overall I greatly enjoyed this."
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