In this comic allegory, August, the Diogenes-like hero of Hamsun's prior novel VAGABONDS, here continues his quest for the perfect society and the happy life. After years of wandering, he returns to his hometown of Polden and sets about introducing "reforms" in an attempt to modernize and improve the lives of its inhabitants. The results are catastrophic.
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In this comic allegory, August, the Diogenes-like hero of Hamsun's prior novel VAGABONDS, here continues his quest for the perfect society and the happy life. After years of wandering, he returns to his hometown of Polden and sets about introducing "reforms" in an attempt to modernize and improve the lives of its inhabitants. The results are catastrophic.
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Add this copy of August (Estonian Edition) to cart. $31.40, good condition, Sold by Bay Used Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sudbury, ON, CANADA, published 1960 by Orto.
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Good. Estonian Language. Good Condition. Minor wear. Binding tight, pages lightly age toned. Previous Owner's name marked inside. No Dust Jacket. Pictures available upon request.
Add this copy of August to cart. $32.68, fair condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES.
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Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Former Library book. (norway, fiction ) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.
Add this copy of August Weltumsegler to cart. $44.95, fair condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES.
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Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket German edition. (norwegian fiction, german fiction, 20th century, knut hamsun ) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.
Add this copy of August to cart. $107.00, very good condition, Sold by Kenneth Mallory, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Decatur, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1931 by Coward McCann.
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Very good. Hardcover. First American Edition. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper, front hinge starting just a bit, bottom corners worn, small spot of loss to the cloth at the front joint, else very good in publisher's brown cloth.
Add this copy of August to cart. $207.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1932 by Cassell and Company Limited.
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Very Good. First British edition. Translated from the Norwegian by Eugene Gay-Tifft. Small stain on page foredges, edges lightly worn, spine lightly sunned and cocked, corners worn and bumped, very good lacking the dust jacket. A sequel to *Wayfarers*, the title character was one of the happy tramps in that novel.
Add this copy of August to cart. $5,007.00, very good condition, Sold by Raptis Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Palm Beach, FL, UNITED STATES, published by Coward-McCann.
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First American edition and first in English, preceding the British edition by one year of the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "B.A. Abel from yours respectfully Knut Hamsun 12/11.31." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated from the Norwegian by Eugene Gay-Tifft. Books inscribed by Hamsun are rare. "Hemingway tried to write like him… Hesse called him, 'my favorite author'… and I.B. Singer stated that Hamsun was quite simply 'the father of the modern school of literature'" (Ferguson, 1). Awarded the 1920 Nobel Prize for Literature, Hamsun was "the most subversive of modernists" (Gay, Modernism, 191). "Supremely gifted in the art of precise observation… [his] ironic scrutiny of society and its ways is both sustained and penetrating" (Naess, ed. History of Norwegian Literature, 184). August, Hamsun's "satiric fantasy of modernity gone awry, " is at the heart of a monumental trilogy that includes his 1927 novel, Landstrykere (Vagabonds, 1930), and his 1933 novel, Men livet lever (Road Leads On, 1934) (Lyndstad, Knut Hamsun, 275). "In these three novels he develops in depth one of his most memorable characters: August… the embodiment of all that restlessness and rootlessness which for Hamsun seemed to epitomize the inauthentic spirit of the contemporary age" (Naess, 193-4). Yet Hamsun's role during the Nazi occupation of Norway, as well as his meetings with Hitler and Goebbels, made him one of literature's most controversial figures. "The extraordinary mix, in one man, of brilliant art and repugnant politics has produced a continuing fascination with Hamsun's life and writings" (Agar, Knut Hamsun, 3).
Add this copy of August to cart. $70.50, good condition, Sold by All Booked Up FL rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from The Villages, FL, UNITED STATES.
Add this copy of August to cart. $252.00, like new condition, Sold by Wm Burgett Bks & Collectibles rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Diego, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1931 by McClelland & Stewart, Ltd.
Add this copy of August to cart. $127.00, very good condition, Sold by J Mercurio Books Maps & Prints rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Garrison, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1931 by Coward McCann.
Add this copy of August to cart. $257.00, good condition, Sold by Evolving Lens Bookseller rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Kingston, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1932 by Cassell and Company Ltd.
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Condition is Very Good, bound in full red cloth, with a Very Good-dust jacket. Edge wear, toning and a few stains to jacket. Toning and minor foxing to end papers and page edges. No markings to text, binding tight. 441 printed pages. 8vo. Advance Reading Copy with slip laid-in. Translated from the Norweigan by Eugene Gay-Tifft.
