Home | Books By Year | Books from 1885


Constance Ring

Buy Constance Ring now from Amazon

First, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the book. And once you've experienced the book, tell everyone what you thought about it.

Wikipedia article


'Constance Ring' is an 1885 Norwegian novel by Amalie Skram.Brian W. Downs ' Modern Norwegian Literature 1860-1918' 0521048540 - 1966 p94 "Half of Amalie Skram's novels are built on themes akin to that of Agnete. Constance Ring (1885), which makes the start, tells of a middle-class young woman's ill-starred marriages. The first is to a considerably older, insensitive man whom she has never loved and whose embraces revolt her, terminated, before the divorce she is contemplating, by his being accidentally drowned. The second union, with a younger,..." The novel was written in 1883 and was delayed until Amalie was able to publish it.'History of Norwegian Literature' Page 351

The first large novel, Constance Ring, was written in 1883 but not published until 1885 because Amalie Alver was distinctly among those who discussed things that ought not be mentioned.


References



Category:1885 novels

Category:19th-century Norwegian novels


Buy Constance Ring now from Amazon

<-- Return to books from 1885



This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1033332141.