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A Stuga On the Cusp of the Orust Riviera, tucked away next to a hobbit hole in the woods.
Look Back on Happiness by Knut Hamsun
"I am being drawn more and more toward the grassy slopes of spring."
bookshelves: published-1912, norway, e-book, gutenberg-project, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, winter-20122013
Also known as 'The Last Joy'
Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8445
Translated from the Norwegian By PAULA WIKING
I have gone to the forest.
Not because I am offended about anything, or very unhappy about men's evil ways; but since the forest will not come to me, I must go to it. That is all. I have not gone this time as a slave and a vagabond. I have money enough and am overfed, stupefied with success and good fortune, if you understand that. I have left the world as a sultan leaves rich food and harems and flowers, and clothes himself in a hair shirt.
#45 TBR Busting 2013
A short story bordering on a non-fictional observational essay of those living on the fjeld covering early spring to late autumn.
5* Pan
5* Hunger
4* Mysteries
4* Wayfarers
3* Look back on Happiness
TR Growth of the Soil
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