Pan Author:Knut Hamsun ...A startlingly dramatic story, set in the Northern wilderness, the book created a world sensation when it was first published.... It tells of the summer romance of Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, who is vacationing in the North, and Edvarda Mack, the spoiled young daughter of the wealthy man of the district. Edvarda's coquetry acts upon Glahn's per... more »verse, destructive nature so as to turn what has begun as an idyll into a tragedy. This, however, is the way of the forest, and, for Hamsun, Edvarda and Glahn become symbols of the irrational passions that motivate existence. This translation (from the Norwegian) by James W. McFarlane has been widely praised.« less