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NORSE TALES AND SKETCHES.

BY

ALEXANDER L. KIELLAND.

 

TRANSLATED BY R. L. CASSIE.

 

 

LONDON 1896

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

Encouraged by the great and growing popularity of Scandinavian literature in this country, I venture to submit to public judgment this humble essay towards an English presentment of some of the charming novelettes of Alexander L. Kielland, a writer who takes rank among the foremost exponents of modern Norse thought. Although these short stories do not represent the full fruition of the author's genius, they yet convey a fairly accurate conception of his literary personality, and of the bold realistic tendency which is so strikingly developed in his longer 

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