Lucky Per: Introduction by Garth Risk Hallberg

by Henrik Pontoppidan

Book Overview

A true neglected classic, this sweeping 1904 novel is a Modernist masterpiece and arguably "the great Danish novel"-- but is only newly available in English.

Lucky Per is a bildungsroman about the ambitious son of a clergyman who rejects his faith and flees his restricted life in the Danish countryside for the capital city. Per is a gifted young man who arrives in Copenhagen believing that "you had to hunt down luck as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101908092
• ISBN13: 9781101908099
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Length: 664 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.2" x 8.1"