"Knut Hamsun ... is one of the creators, one of the Prometheans who have stolen fire from heaven. He has the godlike qualities that belong to the very great, the completest omniscience about human nature."
"... indescribably calm and tremendous ... so entirely human, that we cannot skip one line ... the critical faculty abdicates and there is nothing left but words of praise ... whatever else Knut Hamsun may have written should be translated with the least possible delay."--HENRY BAERLEIN in the Christmas number of _The Bookman_.
"New novels of lasting value have been very rare of late. Here, at least, is one."--_Review of Reviews._
Crown 8vo, cloth =A Love Story= =7s. 6d. net=
"Exquisite ... the more one reads the book the more one realises its witchery. It is one of the few pieces of contemporary fiction which is worthy of a place in the most select library."--_Country Life._
"'Pan' will serve to increase the warmth of welcome which 'Growth of the Soil' has already won.... The introduction of a new note into literature ... an extraordinary fascination."
"A great novel ... a merciless piece of self-revelation ... a book that has few equals in any literature."--_Evening Standard._
"Simple and powerful ... strong and absorbing in its insight into the vital springs of human passion."--_Scotsman._
"This beautiful work."--_Glasgow Herald._
"A love story of a most unusual type, with a rare, wistful charm ... a book which no reader should miss."--_Weekly Dispatch._
"Is marked by flashes of rare poetic beauty ... a wonderful bit of literary craftsmanship."--_Aberdeen Free Press._
Buchholtz is one of the most original of modern Danish writers. His characters are creations of great imaginative power and human interest; he brings before us a gallery of varied personages; quaint and yet true to life as those of Dickens. And he shows a great fertility of invention in contriving for them the most amazing situations.
The story of Egholm, the fantastic enthusiast and inventor, his conflict with the remarkable "Brotherhood" in one little town, and his extraordinary achievements and failures in another, is one of the author's best, rich in humour and full of unexpected developments.
The book is one that should appeal to every class of reader.