At the beginning of the first novel the wanderer, Knut Pedersen, has fled the city, seeking peace and nurturing from nature. We see him at the 

Not only is this book Knut Hamsun's most significant work, but it gives the very best description available of life in Christiania toward the close of the century. A book of exquisite lyric beauty, of masterly psychology, and finished artistic form.

A true classic of modern literature that has been described as "one of the most disturbing novels in existence". Hunger is the story of a Norwegian artist who wanders the streets,

When Hamsun won the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1920, it was mostly because of this 1917 novel, an epic vision of peasant life in Norway's backcountry. The saga of Isak and Inger (born with a harelip) and their hard times is by turns affecting and ponderous. ...