Norway's hidden classics, newly in English.

Young Ibsen's saga dramas and his satire on marriage. The novel the police confiscated the day after it appeared. Amundsen's companion at both Poles, the history of whaling, a Bohemian's confessions and Bergen's eccentrics. 43 books from Wergeland to Nordahl Grieg.

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Norwegian literature in English usually means Ibsen's later plays, Hamsun and Undset. These are the books around them: Ibsen's early plays, the novels of the 1880s Modern Breakthrough, polar memoirs, and the writing that built modern Norway.

AI-assisted translation, prepared and edited by Valentin Sarić. The translations are made from the Norwegian and Dano-Norwegian originals, complete, with a translator's note. They are AI-assisted and still awaiting full human editorial review.