Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) Blicher's life -- The diary of a parish clerk -- The gamekeeper at Aunsbjerg -- Atlas, how changed! -- The hosier and his daughter -- The pastor of Vejlbye -- Tardy awakening -- Three festival eves 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 storyteller's art |
