EBOOK A HAPPY BOY ***
Produced by David S. Miller
A HAPPY BOY
BY
BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON
TRANSLATED FROM THE NORSE
BY
RASMUS B. ANDERSON
AUTHOR'S EDITION
PUBLISHER'S NOTE.
The present edition of Bjornstjerne Bjornson's works is published by
special arrangement with the author. Mr. Bjornson has designated Prof.
Rasmus B. Anderson as his American translator, cooperates with him, and
revises each work before it is translated, thus giving his personal
attention to this edition.
PREFACE.
"A Happy Boy" was written in 1859 and 1860. It is, in my estimation,
Bjornson's best story of peasant life. In it the author has succeeded
in drawing the characters with _remarkable distinctness_, while his
profound psychological insight, his perfectly artless simplicity of
style, and his thorough sympathy with the hero and his surroundings are
nowhere more apparent. This view is sustained by the great popularity
of "A Happy Boy" throughout Scandinavia.
It is proper to add, that in the present edition of Bjornson's stories,
previous translations have been consulted, and that in this manner a
few happy words and phrases have been found and adopted.
This volume will be followed by "The Fisher Maiden," in which Bjornson
makes a new departure, and exhibits his powers in a somewhat different
vein of story-telling.
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