The Visionary: Pictures From Nordland

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Jonas Lie. The Visionary: Pictures From Nordland

The Visionary: Pictures From Nordland

Table of Contents

PREFACE

PART I

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

PART II

NORDLAND AND NORDLANDERS

NORDLAND AND NORDLANDERS

PART III

CHAPTER I

HOME

CHAPTER II

ON THE SHORE

CHAPTER III

THE SERVANTS' HALL

CHAPTER IV

AMONG THE VÆTTE ROCKS

CHAPTER V

CONFIRMATION

CHAPTER VI

AT THE CLERK'S

CHAPTER VII

TRONDENÆS

CHAPTER VIII

AT HOME

CHAPTER IX

THE CHRISTMAS VISIT

CHAPTER X

THE STORM

CHAPTER XI

CONCLUSION

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Jonas Lie

Published by Good Press, 2019

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David loved to give play to his fancy, not only upon this violin—he had a good ear, and had learnt not a little—but also about it: where it really came from, and how old it might be? He would exceedingly have liked an indistinct mark inside to mean that it was "possibly a Cremona"; it was one of his weak points, and this room for conjecture was evidently, in his eyes, one of the excellences of the violin.

David had a small collection of what he called classical music, long compositions which he played from the notes. They were not much to my fancy, and always struck me as being of a piece with what was strange in his manner when he posed as a logician. When he played them it was more like severe, mental, school exercise than anything his heart was in; and he played as correctly as he argued or wrote.

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