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The Nobel Prize winner's lyrical and disturbing portrait of love and the dark recesses of the human psyche A Penguin Classic A lone hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop, Thomas Glahn roams Norway's northernmost wilds. Living out of a rude hut at the edge of a vast... Read Full Overview

'When the snow water had broken crevices open in the mountain a shot or even just a sharp cry was enough to tear loose a huge slab and send it toppling.'

Hamsun's portrait of a man rejecting the claims of bourgeois society for a Rousseauian embrace of Nature and Eros, in a remarkable new translation. "The work contains a harmony found only in the highest types of poetry; it is actually poetry set in prose, and boasts the best... Read Full Overview

Norwegian Nobel Prize winner, Knut Hamsun, wrote his highly regarded novel, "Pan", while living in Paris. Strongly influenced by Dostoyevsky, it is first a work of great beauty and simplicity that can be experienced on many levels. Commenting on his work in progress, Knut Hamsun... Read Full Overview

PanBy Knut Hamsun, W.W. Worster (Translated by)

Pan is an 1894 novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. Writing it while he lived in Paris and in Kristiansand, Norway, Hamsun was directly influenced by the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky. It remains one of his most famous works today.Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, a hunter and ex-military... Read Full Overview

Pan is a 1894 novel by the Norwegian author and winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature, Knut Hamsun. It remains one of his most famous works today. Hamsun saw mankind and nature united in a strong, sometimes mystical bond. This connection between the characters and their... Read Full Overview

First published in 1894, "Pan" is one of Norwegian author and Nobel prize-winning Knut Hamsun's most famous works. It is the story of Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, an ex-military man who lives alone in a hut in the woods with his faithful dog Aesop. Glahn's life changes when he... Read Full Overview

First published in 1894, Knut Hamsun's Pan is former lieutenant Thomas Glahn's retrospective narrative of his life and adventures in the Norwegian woods. A man of fascinating complexity, Glahn is in some respects a modern successor to a long line of "superfluous" men in western... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

A blend of nature and human emotion, Pan tells the story of Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, a reclusive man who retreats to the wilderness of northern Norway. His simple life is disrupted by his intense and tumultuous relationships with two women, Edvarda and Eva, leading to a tragic... Read Full Overview

The Norwegian Nobel laureate wrote Pan while living in Paris. Strongly influenced by Dostoevsky, it is above all a work of great beauty and simplicity that can be experienced on many levels. Commenting on his work in progress, Knut Hamsun said: "My new book will be beautiful;... Read Full Overview