Scandinavian Books


Four Major Plays, Volume I (Signet Classics) Best Price: $2.77 I had to read A Doll House and the Wild Duck for one of my classes, and this was the edition...	The Summer Book (New York Review Books Classics) Best Price: $7.90 As a child, Tove Jansson lived in summer on islands in the Gulf of Finland, and later she and...	Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Best Price: $13.46 "Kristin Lavrandatter", Sigrid Undset's Nobel-prize winning trilogy from the 1920s,...	The Return: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) Best Price: $7.89 The Return is the second book (at least in the US) by Hakan Nesser, and continues the story of...	Four Major Plays: A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $2.82 Rather predictably, the first play offered here is "A Doll's House", the most famous...



Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Perennial Classics) Best Price: $7.68 I highly recommend this book to anybody interested in how the prairie was settled. The heritage...	Unspoken: A Mystery (Inspector Anders Knutas Mysteries) Best Price: $4.89 I`m not a big fan of using reporters as an important part of the story: this book by a...	A Kierkegaard Anthology Best Price: $15.95 Kierkegaard is enjoying something of a revival of late, with many of his works appearing in new...	An Enemy of the People (Penguin Plays) Best Price: $4.54 took a litttle longer than i expected but recieved evrything a ok	Smilla's Sense of Snow Best Price: $3.00 A thriller that seeks to expand the reader's mind, not just entertain through suspense, Smilla's...



The Poetic Edda (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $6.93 While reasonably readable, this translation suffers from some serious issues that will be...	A Doll's House and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.80 While "Penguin Classics" are generally reliable when it comes to editions, paper-type,...	Miss Julie and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $3.00 I don't care that much for Strindberg's other plays, but I love "Miss Julie." This is...	Don Quixote (Cliffs Notes) Best Price: $0.71 the book was one of the best books i've ever read! the book was great in detail	The Kalevala: An Epic Poem after Oral Tradition by Elias Lonnrot (Oxford World's Classics Series) Best Price: $8.00 The Kalevala is the result of Elias L?nnrot collecting and commiting to paper the oral...

Ibsen: 4 Major Plays, Vol. 2: Ghosts/An Enemy of the People/The Lady from the Sea/John Gabriel Borkman (Signet Classics) Best Price: $3.05 Four Major Plays, Volume I (Signet Classics) An Enemy of the People Dr...	Hanna's Daughters: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Best Price: $0.88 It was OK. The story was interesting, but a little hard to follow sometimes.	Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.95 A great book for those who love to read good literature.	Markings Best Price: $8.07 What a privilege to share the inner life of Dag Hammarskjold! The writings are personal and...	Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.90 I recommend this book to anyone who loves to read good literature.

Growth of the Soil (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.39 I came across a horoscope that included the word "SVOERMERE." Upon doing a websearch...	Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes Best Price: $4.94 My Sociology instructor required this book for class. Yuck! I found it vulgar and offensive and...	Four Great Plays of Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder (Enriched Classics Series) Best Price: $3.33 This was a pretty good book. I had to read it for my Approaches to Literature class, but...	Victoria (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.22 I did not really know how Knut Hamsun was. Just for the sake of defeating the boredom, I looked...	Gunnar's Daughter (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Best Price: $8.57 This novella should fit comfortably beside the plays of Sophocles or Aeschylus or the tragedies...

Hunger (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Best Price: $6.99 The unnamed narrator in HUNGER is isolated, impulsive, self-destructive, excessively...	What Is Mine Best Price: $5.45 Wow! Great Characters! depth and feeling! I loved it. I cannot wait for more. A fantastic...	Peder Victorious: A Tale of the Pioneers Twenty Years Later Best Price: $7.28 I stumbled onto "Giants in the Earth" years ago and fell in love with it immediately. ...	Letters from Africa, 1914-1931 Best Price: $34.42 These letters are the life and thoughts of an honest-to-God human female--a real woman, not a...	The Wild Duck (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $0.01 This is a very complex play although it seems simplistic at first. There were a lot of changes...

Hedda Gabler and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $1.65	An Enemy of the People; The Wild Duck; Rosmersholm (Oxford World's Classics (Oxford University Press).) Best Price: $1.00 A professor of mine told me that AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE is not a very good play, so I read it...	Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Best Price: $7.80 To give a brief synopsis a Norwegian man goes to a rural area of Norway to spend several months...	Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny This volume contains Babette's Feast which is the basis for the Oscar winning movie of the same...	Peer Gynt (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $1.15 Peer Gynt is a piece of literature that, like Goethe's Faust Part II plays best on the stage of...

A Doll's House: A New Version by Frank McGuinness (Faber Plays) Best Price: $1.22 The book came in perfect condition and in a very timely fashion. I was pleased.	The Quintessence of Ibsenism (Dover Books on Literature and Drama) Best Price: $5.45 This is an astounding book really outlining Fabian Socialiam as seen in the plays of Henrik...	The Axe: The Master of Hestviken, Vol. 1 Best Price: $10.01 I had never read anything by Sigrid Undset until I read this novel, though I had wanted to for a...	Hunger: A Novel Best Price: $8.75 somewhat autobiographical and you can tell as he deals with issues of human selfishness and his...	Miss Julie (Plays for Performance) Best Price: $5.25 How can this be a great "modern" playwright when the views and themes of this major...

The Ringmaster's Daughter Best Price: $7.13 I read the more popular Gaarder novel called "Sophie's World," and I enjoyed that...	The Snake Pit: The Master of Hestviken, Vol. 2 Best Price: $2.95 At times this story is quite heavy with emotion, however the characters are so well developed,...	Mysteries (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Best Price: $8.57 Mysteries is the most accomplished of a group of novels Hamsun wrote in his early years. The...	Out Stealing Horses (Wheeler Large Print Book Series) Best Price: $18.68 Per Petterson's account of 67-year old Trond Sander's fatalistic meeting with new neighbor Lars...	Ghosts (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $0.46 "Ghosts", while not as famous as Ibsen's "A Doll's House", is clearly an...

Master Builder (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $0.48 Henrik Ibsen, The Master Builder (Theatre Arts Books, 1967) Ibsen is considered one of the...	Strindberg: Five Plays Best Price: $3.14 In the author's introduction to "A Dream Play", Strindberg focuses on what he sees as...	The Sagas of the Icelanders Best Price: $92.00 I guess any attempt to provide a selection of anything will meet with some disgruntlement, in...	My Life As a Dog Best Price: $8.49 I tried to read this book, I really did. I just gave up when it finally almost bored me to...	Doctor Glas: A Novel Best Price: $7.67 For a novel written in 1905, DOCTOR GLAS is remarkably modern. As aptly stated by William...

The Master Builder and Other Plays (Classics) Best Price: $3.00	Shyness and Dignity Best Price: $6.00 Shyness & Dignity reminded me of several of my favorite authors: Saul Bellow, especially...	Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia: Fiction, Film, and Social Change Best Price: $21.99 Scandinavian popular novels and films have flourished in the last thirty years. In Crime and...	The Wild Duck: Hedda Gabler Best Price: $2.21 Hedda Gabler is a must read for English majors like myself, but it is not a fun read nor a...	Final Curtain (Eurocrime series) Best Price: $10.73 This mystery novel from acclaimed Norwegian crime writer Kjersti Scheen features private...

In the Wake: A Novel Best Price: $4.94 I sought out IN THE WAKE after having read and being mightily impressed by Per Petterson's later...	Their Fathers' God Best Price: $6.26 They survive the common enemies of wind and weather, blizzard and drought; only to find that...	Four Major Plays: Volume 2 Ghosts An Enemy People The Lady from Sea John Gabriel Borkman (Ibsen) Best Price: $6.50 I first picked up a copy of Ibsen while searching through my parents' bookshelf for something to...	The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen (Cambridge Companions to Literature) Best Price: $15.95 In the history of modern theater Ibsen is one of the dominating figures. The sixteen chapters of...

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