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The Diary of a Parish Clerk: and Other Stories
The nineteenth-century Danish writer, Steen Steensen Blicher deserves to stand alongside the great writers of world literature, from Boccaccio to Maupassant, and this selection of his work will make a group of his most important stories available in the English-speaking world. These reveal not only the writer himself but the country and culture which formed him in the early years of the nineteenth century. Although his subject matter is deeply and truly that of Denmark, his account of human relationships is timeless and he deploys the true storytellers art.
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The Diary of a Parish Clerk: and Other Stories
The nineteenth-century Danish writer, Steen Steensen Blicher deserves to stand alongside the great writers of world literature, from Boccaccio to Maupassant, and this selection of his work will make a group of his most important stories available in the English-speaking world. These reveal not only the writer himself but the country and culture which formed him in the early years of the nineteenth century. Although his subject matter is deeply and truly that of Denmark, his account of human relationships is timeless and he deploys the true storytellers art.
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The Diary of a Parish Clerk: and Other Stories

The Diary of a Parish Clerk: and Other Stories

The Diary of a Parish Clerk: and Other Stories

The Diary of a Parish Clerk: and Other Stories

Overview

The nineteenth-century Danish writer, Steen Steensen Blicher deserves to stand alongside the great writers of world literature, from Boccaccio to Maupassant, and this selection of his work will make a group of his most important stories available in the English-speaking world. These reveal not only the writer himself but the country and culture which formed him in the early years of the nineteenth century. Although his subject matter is deeply and truly that of Denmark, his account of human relationships is timeless and he deploys the true storytellers art.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780485115000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 09/13/2001
Pages: 244
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Margaret Drabble is the author of The Sea Lady, The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth, and The Needle’s Eye, among other novels. She has written biographies of Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson, and is the editor of the fifth and sixth editions of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. For her contributions to contemporary English literature, she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2008.

Table of Contents

Preface by Erik Harbo

Introduction by Margaret Drabble

Translator's Note

Steen Steensen Blicher's Life

The Diary of a Parish Clerk

The Gamekeeper at Aunsbjerg

Alas, How Changed!

The Hosier and His Daughter

The Pastor of Vejlbye

Tardy Awakening

The Three Festival Eves

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