The diary of a parish clerk and other stories
By: Steen Steensen Blicher ; introduction by Margaret Drabble ; translated by Paula Hostrup-Jessen ; illustrations by Povl Christensen.
Contributors: Hostrup-Jessen, Paula, 1930-; Christensen, Povl.
Publisher: Athlone Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London; Atlantic Highlands, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Blicher, Steen Steensen, 1782-1848 -- Translations into English.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-178).
Table of contents: title: Blicher's life; title: The diary of a parish clerk; title: The gamekeeper at Aunsbjerg; title: Atlas, how changed!; title: The hosier and his daughter; title: The pastor of Vejlbye; title: Tardy awakening; title: Three festival eves.