Jens Peter Jacobsen

Marie Grubbe

Historical novel portraying a woman's sensual and passionate life across seventeenth-century Denmark

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Jens Peter Jacobsen
Jens Peter Jacobsen

Danish author whose scientific naturalism and lyrical prose style influenced an entire generation of Scandinavian writers. Niels Lyhne is a landmark of agnostic, psychologically penetrating fiction.

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