Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers, Paperback/Knut Hamsun

Hamsun's portrait of a man rejecting the claims of bourgeois society for a Rousseauian embrace of Nature and Eros, in a remarkable new translation. ``The work contains a harmony found only in the highest types of poetry; it is actually poetry set in prose, and boasts the best traits of each.`` Isaac Bashevis Singer