Marie Grubbe

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.