Pan

Pan (1894) by knut hamsun who won the 1920 Nobel Prize in literature, is a multi-layered psychological masterpiece of human perversity and pride in the face of love and sensual attraction. romantically awkward hunter, fisherman and nature-lover Lieutenant Thomas glahn lives in a cabin away from society </br> alone, except for his dog and occasional interactions with the locals including the young and audacious Edwina, a free spirit who searches for a prince to conquer her, and has not yet met her match. The two commence a peculiar hot and cold relationship that evolves into a tragic psychological standoff. A classic literary probing of quirks and vulnerabilities of the psyche, set against the exquisite natural background of Norway.