Vast Drollery
MYSTERIESKnut Hamsun Knopf ($2.50). "In the middle of the summer of 1891 a little Norwegian coast town was the scene of a series of most unusual events. A Stranger turned up in the town, a certain Nagel, a noteworthy and original charlatan, who did a heap of odd things and vanished again as suddenly as he had come."
Thus Author Hamsun begins his examination of a mad, melancholy Dane, Johan Nagel, and the heap of odd things he did. He fell in love with Dagny Kielland, who was engaged to marry a...
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