About the book: 1958 / The talented Norwegian writer and playwright Alexander Hjelland (1849–1906) is a prominent representative of the realistic trend in Norwegian literature. Following Ibsen, who renewed the European theater with his social drama, Kjelland, with his social novel, largely determined not only the face of Norwegian realistic literature, but also the leading place it occupies among other Western European literatures of the second half of the 19th century.