{"product_id":"the-segelfoss-novels-children-of-the-age-segelfoss-town-9798218064556","title":"The Segelfoss Novels: Children of the Age \u0026 Segelfoss Town","description":"\u003cp\u003eCombined edition of J.S. Scott's English translations of 1920 Nobel Prize laureate Knut Hamsun's Segelfoss novels, \u003cem\u003eChildren of the Age\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eB rn av Tiden\u003c\/em\u003e) and \u003cem\u003eSegelfoss Town \u003c\/em\u003e(\u003cem\u003eSegelfoss By\u003c\/em\u003e), originally published in Norway in 1913 and 1915, respectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novels were Hamsun's criticism of modern times, depicting the fall of the landed gentry and the rise of the working class, and were the first of his works devoted to social issues. Monika Zagar, writing in \u003cem\u003eKnut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance \u003c\/em\u003e(2009), described them as \"much more than dry social analysis; indeed, they investigate, in rich novelistic form, the propagation and survival of a family.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hamsun's art at its best\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cem\u003eThe Literary Digest International Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e (1924)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Among the best of Hamsun's works. . . . minute in detail and yet its significance is sweeping.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cem\u003eDetroit Free Press (\u003c\/em\u003e1925)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tough Poets Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50390373204242,"sku":"9798218064556","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_19e19603-07c8-456e-b355-310448831b16.jpg?v=1728945690","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-segelfoss-novels-children-of-the-age-segelfoss-town-9798218064556","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}