num_pages: 132
description: Pan is a novel written by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. The story revolves around a young artist named Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, who decides to live in the wilderness of northern Norway. He spends his days hunting, fishing, and exploring the rugged landscape. Glahn is a solitary figure, but he is occasionally visited by a local family, including a young woman named Edvarda, with whom he becomes romantically involved.As Glahn's relationship with Edvarda deepens, he begins to experience intense emotions and desires that he has never felt before. He becomes obsessed with her, and his mental state begins to deteriorate. Meanwhile, the local community begins to gossip about Glahn and his strange behavior.The novel is a psychological study of a man's descent into madness, as well as a meditation on the beauty and brutality of nature. Hamsun's prose is poetic and lyrical, and he captures the rugged beauty of the Norwegian landscape with vivid detail. The novel was first published in 1894 and is considered a masterpiece of Norwegian literature.I fancy I can read a little in the souls of those about me--but perhaps it is not so. Oh, when my good days come, I feel as if I could see far into others' souls, though I am no great or clever head. We sit in a room, some men, some women, and I, and I seem to see what is passing within them, and what they think of me. I find something in every swift little change of light in their eyes; sometimes the blood rises to their cheeks and reddens them; at other times they pretend to be looking another way, and yet they watch me covertly from the side. There I sit, marking all this, and no one dreams that I see through every soul. For years past I have felt that I could read the souls of all I met. But perhaps it is not so...This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
language: English
title: Pan
titlecomplete: Pan
characters: Thomas Glahn, Edvarda
genres: Classics, Fantasy, Nobel Prize, Novels, Literary Fiction, Romance, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction, Scandinavian Literature
ratings_count: 10073
places: Norway
publisher: Kessinger Publishing