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European History

1987

Literature

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The Travels Abroad Of H. C. Andersen, Don Mowatt Jan 1987

The Travels Abroad Of H. C. Andersen, Don Mowatt

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A complete appreciation of Hans Christian Andersen has always been limited to Danish-speaking readers because so much of his private life is most clearly revealed in his letters, diaries, and travel books which remain largely untranslated into English. There is a handful of exceptions, the majority of which are mid-nineteenth century translations from England.


Enok Mortensen's Major Fiction, Dorothy Burton Skardal Jan 1987

Enok Mortensen's Major Fiction, Dorothy Burton Skardal

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Enok Mortensen' s literary career was strangely divided. In the 1930s he published a play and three books of fiction in a first burst of activity that began after most other Scandinavian immigrant authors had ceased to publish or had died. After 1936, however, he abruptly ceased to publish fiction except for scattered short stories , and for many years wrote historical works in English instead. In English too was his charming autobiographical account of A Danish Boyhood in 1981. Who would have expected, then, that his last book would return to the novel form after nearly half a century …


Enok Mortensen And The History Of Danish Immigration To America, Eric Helmer Pedersen Jan 1987

Enok Mortensen And The History Of Danish Immigration To America, Eric Helmer Pedersen

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Enok Mortensen is probably best known in Denmark through his activity as a guest lecturer at Askov Folk High School in the 1960s and 1970s. Within the confines of a small group of Danes with friends and family in America he also had a name as a writer of fiction. It is true that his first work Mit Folk (1932), a collection of short stories, was published in Askov, Minnesota, but his next, the novel Saledes blev jeg hjeml0s (1934) was published in Holb