The diary of a parish clerk and other stories

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The diary of a parish clerk and other stories

Steen Steensen Blicher ; introduction by Margaret Drabble ; translated by Paula Hostrup-Jessen ; illustrations by Povl Christensen

Athlone, 1996

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Short stories

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-178)

Contents of Works

  • 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
  • Three festival eves

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • "The Diary of a Parish Clerk"
  • "The Gamekeeper at Aunsbjerg"
  • "Alas, How changed!"
  • "The Hosier and His Daughter"
  • "The Pastor of Vejlbye"
  • "The Pastor of Vejlbye"
  • "Tardy Awakening"
  • "The Three Festival Eves".

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