Jens Peter Jacobsen

Hanna Astrup Larsen

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 immediate importance was his status as the 'writer of his generation.' With the novel "Niels Lyhne" (1880) he voiced the disoriented and confused rejection of the old values, Romanticism's dream and religion. . . . Like the single volume of short stories Jacobsen published in 1882, three years before he died of tuberculosis, both novels are unique in an age of realism on account of their highly charged, atmospheric prose and almost lyrical style."

Niels Lyhne

Anna Grabow

A translation of four stories by the 19th Century Danish writer. The topics range from first love revisited, as in "Fru Fonss," to lost love in "Mogens."

Mogens and Other Stories

Fru Marie Grubbe

Marie Grubbe

Poems

Just the Place for Roses

Else Ellefsenr

From the Danish

The Plague in Bergamo

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Mogens, and Other Stories - Scholar's Choice Edition

A Lady of the Seventeenth Century - Scholar's Choice Edition

Romam

The Plague at Bergamo

From one of the world greatest writers, the classic novel of the passion driven life.George Brandes calls this book the greatest tour de force in Danish literature. It is a rattling historical romance; the story of a woman who loved for the sake of having her love returned.A grim realistic biographical novel. It gives an interesting picture of Denmark of the latter seventeenth century, and of the heroine who casts her fortunes first with a natural son of the king and then with a peasant. This is the first fruit in Danish fiction, of the scientific spirit and one of the earliest manifestations of the modern ideas introduced in Scandinavian letters by Georg Brandes.

Marie Grubbe is loosely based on the true story of a Danish noble woman of the same name. A wealthy heiress she married the illegitimate son of Frederik The Third of Denmark and Norway. The relationship was unhappy and violent, and, after she had had several affairs, her husband divorced her allowing her to keep her substantial dowry. For the next two years, Marie Grubbe travelled around Europe with her brother-in-law and lover spending the fortune her mother had left her. On her return her father married her to a local nobleman but this relationship too was unhappy. At the age of forty-six, she finally met the man who was going to be her companion for the rest of her life: a coachman more than twenty years her junior. A wonderful historical novel and one of the jewels of Danish 19-th century fiction

Seventeenth Century Interiors

Excerpt from Mogens: And Other Stories Jens Peter Jacobsen was born in the little town of Thisted in Jutland, on April 7, 1847. In 1868 he matriculated at the University of Copenhagen, where be displayed a remarkable talent for science, winning the gold medal of the university with a dissertation on Seaweeds. Lle definitely chose science as a career, and was among the first in Scandinavia to recognize the importance of Darwin. Lie translated the Origin of Species and Descent of Man into Danish. In 1872 while collecting plants he con tracted tuberculosis, and as a consequence, was compelled to give up his scientific career. This was not as great a sacrifice, as it may seem, for he had long been undecided whether to choose science or literature as his life work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

And Other Stories (Classic Reprint)

Mogens

Marie Grubbe, a Lady of the Seventeenth Century

Marie Grubbe: A Lady of the Seventeenth Century By Jens Peter Jacobsen The historical novel Fru Marie Grubbe (first published in English in 1917) is the first Danish treatment of a woman as a sexual creature. It is based on the life of an authentic 17th century Danish noblewoman, and charts her downfall from a member of the royal family to the wife of a ferryman, as a result of her desire for an independent and satisfying erotic life. In many ways the books anticipates the themes of D. H. Lawrence.

Mogens and Other Stories is a popular collection of short stories by Danish novelist and poet, Jens Peter Jacobsen. This short stories is Mogens which is the tale of a young dreamer and his maturing love, sorrow, hatred and revenge. Other popular short stories included are the Poe-inspired A Shot in the Fog and The Plague of Bergamo, which is about people clinging to religion even when they have the ability of being free men. Mogens and Other Stories is highly recommended for those who enjoy the writings of Jens Peter Jacobsen and also for those discovering his works for the first time.

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 immediate importance was his status as the 'writer of his generation.' Jacobsen's breakthrough came already in 1876 with the historical and psychological novel "Fru Marie Grubbe,"" entitled "Marie Grubbe" in English, "which for the first time in Danish literature presented a profound portrayal of a woman as a creature of instinct and desire and as a being searching for her own identity. The book's defiant individualism asserting human values as opposed to society's judgment was also a sign of modernity."

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