51340X1 Originally published in Norwegian under the title Markens Grode by Gyldendalske Boghandel. Alfred A. Knopf, New York: 1922. 276 pages. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition considering its age. "The long, long road over the moors and up in into the forest - who trod it into being first? Man, a human being, the first that came here. Thre was no path before he cvame. Afterward, some beast or other, following the faint tracks over marsh and moorland, wearing them deper; after these again some Lapp gained scent of the path, and took that way from field to field, llooking to his reindeer. Thus was made the road through the great Almenning - the common tracts without an owner; no-man's land." And so begins this novel by this Nobel Prize Winner.Translated into English from the Norwegian by W. W. Worster. $23.50USD
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