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LIE, JONAS LAURITZ EDEMIL (1833—1908)

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LIE, See also:JONAS LAURITZ EDEMIL (1833—1908) , See also:Norwegian novelist, was See also:born on the 4th of See also:November 1833 See also:close to Hougsund (Eker), near See also:Drammen. In 18.38, his See also:father being appointed See also:sheriff pi See also:Tromso, the See also:family removed to that See also:Arctic See also:town. Here the future novelist enjoyed an untrammelled childhood among the See also:shipping of the little Nordland See also:capital, and gained acquaintance with the See also:wild seafaringlife which he was after-wards to describe. In 1846 he was sent to the See also:naval school at Frederiksvaern, but his extreme near-sight unfitted him for the service, and he was transferred to the Latin school at See also:Bergen. In 1851 he went to the university of See also:Christiania, where See also:Ibsen and See also:Bjornson were among his See also:fellow-students. Jonas Lie, however, showed at this See also:time no inclination to literature. He pursued his studies as a lawyer, took his degrees in See also:law in 1858, and settled down to practice as a See also:solicitor in the little town of Kongsvinger. In 186o he married his See also:cousin, Thomasine Lie, whose collaboration in his See also:work he acknowledged in 1893 in a graceful See also:article in the Samtiden entitled "See also:Min hustru." In 1866 he published his' first See also:book, a See also:volume of poems. He made unlucky speculatibns-in See also:wood, and the consequent See also:financial embarrassment induced him to return to Christiania to try his See also:luck as a than of letters. As a journalist he had no success, but.in 1870 he published a See also:melancholy little See also:romance, Den Fremsynte (Eng. trans., The Visionary, 1894), which made him famous. Lie proceeded to See also:Rome," and published Tales in 1871 and Tremasteren Fremtiden" (Eng. trans., The Barque "Future," See also:Chicago, 5879), a novel, in 1872. His first See also:great book, however, was Lodsen og harts Hustru (The See also:Pilot and his Wife, 1874), which placed him at the See also:head of Norwegian novelists; it was written in the little town of Rocca di Papa in the Albano mountains.

From that time Lie enjoyed, with Bji BjOrnson Ibsen, a See also:

stipend as poet from the Norwegian See also:government. Lie spent the next few years partly in See also:Dresden, partly in See also:Stuttgart, with frequent summer excursions to See also:Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian See also:highlands. During his See also:exile he produced the See also:drama in See also:verse called See also:Faustina See also:Strozzi (1876). Returning to See also:Norway, Lie began a See also:series of romances of See also:modern See also:life in Christiania, of which See also:Thomas See also:Ross (1878) and See also:Adam See also:Schrader (1879) were the earliest. He returned to See also:Germany, and settled first in Dresden again, then in See also:Hamburg, until 1882, when he took up his See also:abode in See also:Paris, where he lived in close retirement in the society of Scandinavian See also:friends. His summers were spent at Berchtesgaden in See also:Tirol. The novels of his See also:German See also:period are See also:Rutland (1881) andGaa paa ("Go Ahead!" 1882), tales of life in the Norwegian See also:merchant See also:navy. His subsequent See also:works, produced with great regularity, enjoyed an immense reputation in Norway. Among the best of them are: Livsslaven (1883, Eng. trans., " One of Life's Slaves," 1895) ; Familjen See also:pea Gilje (" The Family of Gilje," 1883); Malstroem (1885), describing the See also:gradual ruin of a Norwegian family; Et Samliv (" Life in See also:Common," 1887), describing a See also:marriage of convenience. Two of the most successful of his novels were The See also:Commodore's Daughters (1886) and See also:Niobe (1894), both of which were presented to See also:English readers in the See also:International library, edited by Mr See also:Gosse. In 1891—1892 he wrote, under the See also:influence of the new romantic impulse, twenty-four folk-tales, printed in two volumes entitled Trold. Some of these were translated by R.

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Bain in Weird Tales (1893), illustrated by L. See also:Housman. Among his later works were the romance Naar Sol gaar ned (" When the See also:Sun goes down," 1895), the powerful novel of Dyre See also:Rein (1896), the See also:fairy drama of Lindelin (1897), Faate Forland (1899), a romance which contains much which is autobiographical, When the See also:Iron See also:Curtain falls (1901), and The See also:Consul (1904). His Samlede Vaerker were published at See also:Copenhagen in 14 vols. (1902—1904). Jonas Lie See also:left Paris in 1891, and, after spending a' See also:year in Rome, returned to Norway, establishing himself at Holskogen; near See also:Christiansand. He died at Christiania on the 5th of See also:July 1908. he 'with See also:minute unobtrusive As a novelist stands those and painters of contemporary See also:manners who defy arrangement in this or that school. He is with Mrs See also:Gaskell or See also:Ferdinand See also:Fabre; he is not entirely without relation with that old-fashioned favourite of the public, Fredrika See also:Bremer. His son, Erik Lie (b. 1868), published a successful volume of stories, Med Blyanten, in 189o; and is also the author of various works on See also:literary See also:history.

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elder son, See also:Mons Lie (b. 1864), studied the See also:violin in Paris, but turned to literature in 1894. Among his works are the plays 7 ragedier om Kjaerlighed (1897) ; See also:Lombardo and See also:Agrippina (1898); See also:Don Juan (1900); and the novels, Sjofareren (1901); Adam,Ravn (1903) and I. Kvindensnet (19o4). (E.

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