Victoria

Knut Hamsun

⏱ 7 minRealist classic

A poor miller's son who becomes a famous writer, and the beautiful daughter of the great house he loves hopelessly, are divided by class and pride, their mutual love never spoken plainly and missing again and again until it is too late for anything but grief. Hamsun's tender, bittersweet tale.

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