Wanderers

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Wanderers

by Knut Hamsun

EN·~8 hours

Chapters

Description

A wandering narrator drifts through the stark northern landscape, his thoughts as restless as the wind that sweeps the open roads. He encounters the enigmatic Captain Falkenberg and his wife, whose lives become a mirror for his own yearning and doubts. Through vivid observations and quiet introspection, the story captures the tension between youthful ambition and the slow pull of time.

The narrative unfolds as a delicate portrait of a man caught between the impulse to roam and the desire for connection. Hamsun’s lyrical prose renders ordinary moments—an evening by the fire, a shared drink, a fleeting glance—into profound reflections on love, regret, and the fleeting nature of passion. Listeners will be drawn into a world where the landscape itself seems to speak, inviting contemplation of the paths we choose and the memories we carry.

Details

Language

en

Duration

~8 hours (500K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Text file produced by Eric Eldred, Robert Connal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team HTML file produced by David Widger

Release date

2005-03-01

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun

1859–1952

A Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist, he helped reshape modern fiction with intense, inward-looking books such as Hunger and the later classic Growth of the Soil. His legacy is powerful and complicated, with major literary influence alongside deep controversy over his support for Nazi Germany.

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