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Hunger
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Hunger Paperback - 1998

by Hamsun, Knut

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Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998 Book. Good. Soft cover. Fourth printing. Moisture stains on the upper front cover and endpaper, previous owners' name with place of purchase and small note on where and when it was read on the half title page..
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  • Title Hunger
  • Author Hamsun, Knut
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
  • Date 1998
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 001202
  • ISBN 9780374525286 / 0374525285
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.24 x 5.58 x 0.75 in (20.93 x 14.17 x 1.91 cm)
  • Reading level 910
  • Library of Congress subjects Autobiographical fiction, Depression, Mental - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97032455
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes into the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions.

First line

All of this happened while I was walking around starving in Christiania-that strange city no one escapes from until it has left its mark on him....

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About the author

Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) was a Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. His other works include "Pan," "Women at the Pump," and "Mysteries."