Working People

Name: Working People
Author: Alexander Kielland

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Alexander Kielland

Norwegian author associated with the naturalist Scandinavian brand of social criticism. His novels and stories attacked clerical hypocrisy, social snobbery, and bourgeois complacency with caustic wit.

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