Marie Grubbe

Marie Grubbe is a novel written by Danish author Jens Peter Jacobsen. It tells the story of a young woman named Marie Grubbe who is born into a wealthy and respected family in Denmark in the 17th century. Despite her privileged upbringing, Marie is unhappy and restless, and she longs for a life of adventure and excitement.As she grows older, Marie becomes increasingly disillusioned with her life and her marriage to a nobleman named Johan. She begins to have affairs with other men, including a German count and a French adventurer, and she eventually leaves Johan to pursue her own desires.The novel explores themes of love, sexuality, and the constraints of society, as well as the conflict between individual desire and social norms. It is a powerful and evocative portrait of a woman struggling to find her place in a world that is both restrictive and liberating.First published in 1876, Marie Grubbe is considered one of the masterpieces of Danish literature and a classic of European literature as a whole. Jacobsen's vivid and poetic prose, combined with his deep understanding of human psychology, make this a timeless and unforgettable work of fiction.Sometimes when she stood at the open window leaning against the casement and looking down into the paved court below, she would feel an overmastering impulse to throw herself down, merely to do it. But in that very second she seemed to have actually made the leap in her imagination and to have felt the cool, incisive tingling that accompanies a jump from a height. She darted back from the window to the inmost corner of the room, shaking with horror, the image of herself lying in her own blood on the hard stones so vivid in her mind that she had to go back to the window again and look down in order to drive it away.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.