The Dead Kingdom

Name: The Dead Kingdom
Author: Henrik Pontoppidan

by Henrik Pontoppidan

Novel exploring spiritual decline and moral decay in rural Danish society and villages

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Henrik Pontoppidan

Danish novelist who shared the Nobel Prize with Gjellerup in 1917. His massive trilogy Lucky Per is considered the greatest Danish novel, a devastating portrait of spiritual ambition and social disillusionment.

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