Lucky Per

Lucky Per
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Publisher : Everyman's Library
Total Pages : 666
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ISBN-10 : 9781101908099
ISBN-13 : 1101908092
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Book Synopsis Lucky Per by : Henrik Pontoppidan

Download or read book Lucky Per written by Henrik Pontoppidan and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 if it were a wild creature, a crooked-fanged beast . . . and capture and bind it." Per's love interest, a Jewish heiress, is both the strongest character in the book and one of the greatest Jewish heroines of European literature. Per becomes obsessed with a grand engineering scheme that he believes will reshape both Denmark's landscape and its minor place in the world; eventually, both his personal and his career ambitions come to grief. At its heart, the story revolves around the question of the relationship of "luck" to "happiness" (the Danish word in the title can have both meanings), a relationship Per comes to see differently by the end of his life.


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