The night before he died, Hamsun's wife wrote to their daughter: At this moment Hamsun is being played and read all over the world. They call him the greatest of living writers, and we do not even have the money to give him burial. And now he is lying in r..
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Captain Mansana was almost immediately published in Danish and Swedish, and later in German. Bjrnstjerne Bjrnson (1832-1910) was a poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, editor, public speaker, theatre director, and one of the most prominent public figures..
According to Orumila, there are three main factors conducive to a blissful sojourn on earth. One of some questions which I have asked on a number of occasions. It will be necessary at the outset to define what a blissful or successful life is. All too ofte..
A story about computer science and other improbable things. Laurie is lost in Userland. She knows where she is, or where she's going, but maybe not at the same time. The only way out is through Jargon-infested swamps, gates guarded by perfect logic, and th..
Euripides'' searching, poetic voice probes the waste and suffering of war in these plays which are set wake of the Trojan defeat to reflect the playwright''s changing attitude to the real war between Athens and Sparta in his own day - 4th century BC. Hecub..
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One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides (ca. 485-406 BCE) has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. Here, in the third volume of a new..