Minna

by Karl Gjellerup

 

Minna

A Novel

From the Danish of

Karl Gjellerup

Author of
"The Pilgrim Kamanita"

 

Translated by C. L. Nielsen

 

 

London

William Heinemann

1913

"HEU! QUANTO MINUS EST CUM RELIQUIS VERSARI QUAM TUI MEMINISSE!" SHENSTONE.

("TO LIVE WITH THEM IS FAR LESS SWEET THAN TO REMEMBER THEE.") TH. MOORE.

 

As I perused a copy of Thomas Moore's "Irish Melodies," bequeathed to me, with some more favourite books (English and German classics), by my late friend Harold Fenger, I found this "exquisite inscription" strongly underlined with pencil. So I thought it fit to place it as a motto at the head of these recollections of his love-story, the manuscript of which he confided to my care before he died in London. His death, I am half-happy, half-sorry to say, took place not many years after he had lost his beloved Minna. Indeed the fear which she mentioned in her letter to Stephensen, that Fenger's chest was not strong, proved to be less unfounded than he himself supposed. It was also thought probable by his doctor that the heart-wound, of which these pages tell, added fuel to the complaint from which he was already suffering.

KARL GJELLERUP.

Dresden, August 1912.

CONTENTS
(not listed in original)

		Page
BOOK I
Chapter I		1
Chapter II		10
Chapter III		19
Chapter IV		30
Chapter V		36
Chapter VI		42
Chapter VII		49
Chapter VIII		55
Chapter IX		66
Chapter X		82
BOOK II
Chapter I		91
Chapter II		96
Chapter III		100
Chapter IV		110
Chapter V		113
Chapter VI		124
Chapter VII		127
Chapter VIII		130
Chapter IX		136
Chapter X		145
BOOK III
Chapter I		151
Chapter II		166
Chapter III		180
Chapter IV		187
Chapter V		192
BOOK IV
Chapter I		199
Chapter II		208
Chapter III		218
Chapter IV		232
Chapter V		237
Chapter VI		249
Chapter VII		255
Chapter VIII		269
Chapter IX		273
BOOK V
Chapter I		285
Chapter II		290
Chapter III		295
Chapter IV		308
Chapter V		317
Chapter VI		324
Chapter VII		329
Chapter VIII		331