Author:Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

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Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
(1848–1895)

author, professor of German languages. Best remembered work: Gunnar: A Tale of Norse Life, generally considered to have been the first novel by a Norwegian immigrant in America.

Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

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Fiction[edit]

  • Gunnar: A Tale of Norse Life (1874)
  • A Norseman's Pilgrimage (1875)
  • Falconberg (1879)
  • A Daughter of the Philistines (1883)
  • Alpine Roses (1884) (play)
  • A Daring Fiction (1884)
  • Against Heavy Old (1890)
  • The Mammon of Unrighteousness (1891)
  • The Social Strugglers (1893)
  • Against heavy odds: a tale of Norse heroism, and a fearless trio (1894)
  • Mikkel (Unknown)

Collections[edit]

  • Ilka on the Hill Top and Other Stories (1881)
    • Ilka On the Hill-Top — Annunciata — Under the Glacier — A Knight of Dannebrog — Mabel and I — How Mr. Storm Met His Destiny
  • Vagabond Tales (1889)
  • Idyls of Norway and Other Poems (1892) (poems)
  • Boyhood in Norway: Stories of Boy-life in the Land of the Midnight Sun (1892)
    • The Battle of the Rafts — Biceps Grimlund's Christmas Vacation (1888) — The Nixy's Strain — The Wonder Child — "The Sons of the Vikings" — Paul Jespersen's Masquerade — Lady Clare — Bonnyboy — The Child of Luck — The Bear That Had a Bank Account
  • Norse Tales (1894)
  • The Modern Vikings; Stories of Life and Sport in the Norseland (1894)
    • Tharald's Otter — Between Sea and Sky (1886) — Mikkel — The Famine Among the Gnomes — How Bernt Went Whaling — The Cooper and the Wolves — Magnie's Dangerous Ride — Thorwald and the Star-Children — Big Hans and Little Hans — A New Winter Sport — The Skerry of Shrieks — Fiddle-John's Family

Non-fiction[edit]

  • Goethe and Schiller (1879)
  • Essays on German Literature (1892)
  • A Commentary on the Works of Henrik Ibsen (1894)
  • Essays on Scandinavian Literature (1895)
    • Björnstjerne Björnson — Alexander Kielland — Jonas Lie — Hans Christian Andersen — Contemporary Danish Literature — Georg Brandes — Esaias Tegnér

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Non-fiction[edit]

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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