| Summary: | "A man of thirty-four sits down . in Misery Harbor, Newfoundland, after years of violence and poverty suffered during his bitter struggles . why in that crucial year of his life he killed a man." --Dust jacket. A fugitive crosses his tracks -- Fairyland -- Petrus and Oline -- The boy from Jante -- The whistle and the church bell -- I keep no diary -- The boy who was stupid -- Father, son, and grandfather -- Olav Tvillingspröite -- Lightning, a horse, and death -- An immodest girl -- Beer -- Temperance -- At the barricade -- Thieves, minor and major -- A horrid person -- They hanged themselves -- The thief -- The watch and the murderer -- Sin, sinners, and scapegoats -- The child and the rights of property -- Better folk's children -- The fascinating Maren -- The master Rosenvinge -- Master Iversen and the Poltroon -- He cries in the night -- The zoologist -- The law of Jante -- The boy who laughed -- Neutrality -- The mighty Jante -- The knife they gave me -- He early knew the law of Jante -- Confessional -- The warden -- Skyldfri Sidenius -- The holy stone -- Happy childhood -- Not less than ye -- On the Tarpeian rock -- Original sin -- Confirmation -- Wizard and muttonhead -- Wish-dream -- The one and only -- Maybe you don't think I know something about you? -- With woman to the land of childhood -- In Bornholm he assaulted a lady -- Men of courage -- A stranger among the old and wise -- The slave-trader -- Witness-dread -- A venal mother -- The starving artist -- The suicide -- Morality and terror -- Adamsen's barn -- Sin and atonement -- Bourgeois and proletarian -- The power and the glory -- They took the holy into their mouths -- Unenlightened persons -- A revelation of purity -- Virgin birth -- We did not like the devout -- Rice pudding -- The house of all dread -- Adamsen's barn has burned down -- Foreword to the book of Espen -- The book of Espen. Espen Arnakke -- The eunuch -- Agnes, Agnes, Agnes -- Sodom -- The gallows -- Canst thou not love -- The family in the boiling pot -- The right things -- ...
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