Excerpt from Synnove Solbakken With these characteristics, and with a temper which is to a strange degree dogged and yet ductile at the same time, Bjornson has been curiously modified by the tendencies of the age. By the date of his appearance, he belongs to the generation, not merely of Ibsen, but of Tolstoi and Swinburne, of Dumas fils and Zola, of Dostoieffsky and Renan. He has had to find his place among these extraordinarily diverse and unrelated types. At one or another point he touches each of them in a kind of unconscious or unacknowledged rivalry. In a certain sense. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.