Niels Lyhne

Niels Lyhne is a novel written by Danish author Jens Peter Jacobsen. It was first published in 1880 and is considered to be a masterpiece of Danish literature. The story follows the life of Niels Lyhne, a young man from rural Denmark who dreams of becoming a poet. Niels struggles to find his place in the world and grapples with questions of faith, love, and mortality. Along the way, he falls in love with several women, including the beautiful and enigmatic Edith, but ultimately finds himself alone and disillusioned. The novel is a complex exploration of the human condition, and Jacobsen's prose is both poetic and philosophical. Niels Lyhne is a deeply moving and thought-provoking work that continues to captivate readers more than a century after its initial publication.THERE was in Niels Lyhne's nature a lame reflec-tiveness, child of an instinctive shrinking from decisive action, grandchild of a subconscious sense that he lacked personality. He was always struggling against this reflectiveness, sometimes goading himself by calling it vile names, then again decking it out as a virtue that was a part of his inmost self and was bound up with all his possibilities and powers. But whatever he made of it, and however he looked upon it, he hated it as a secret infirmity, which he might perhaps hide from the world, but never from himself; it was always there to humiliate him whenever he was alone with himself.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.