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Niels Lyhne

Jens Peter Jacobson

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1880
Originally in
Originally in Danish
Pages
Pages 230

A would-be poet loses every woman he loves to another man or to death, buries his wife and then his child, breaks his unbelief to pray at the child's bed and despises himself for it, and dies of a wound in a war he joined to feel something.

And then finally he died the death—the difficult death.
Niels Lyhne, Jens Peter Jacobson

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