Victoria

The Nobel Prize winner’s poetic, psychologically intense portrayal of love’s predicament in a class-bound society

A Penguin Classic

Set in a coastal village of late nineteenth-century Norway, Victoria follows two lovers whose yearnings are as powerful as the circumstances that conspire to thwart their romance. Johannes, a miller’s son turned poet, finds inspiration for his writing in his passionate devotion to Victoria, a daughter of the impoverished lord of the manor, who feels constrained...