Mogens and Other Stories

Project Gutenberg's Mogens and Other Stories, by Jens Peter Jacobsen This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Mogens and Other Stories Mogens; The Plague At Bergamo; There Should Have Been Roses; Mrs. Fonss Author: Jens Peter Jacobsen Translator: Anna Grabow, 1921 Release Date: April 21, 2009 [EBook #6765] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MOGENS AND OTHER STORIES *** Produced by Eric Eldred, and David Widger MOGENS AND OTHER STORIES (1882) By Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847-1885) Translated from the Danish By Anna Grabow (1921) Contents INTRODUCTION MOGENS THE PLAGUE IN BERGAMO THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ROSES MRS. FONSS INTRODUCTION In the decade from 1870 to 1880 a new spirit was stirring in the intellectual and literary world of Denmark. George Brandes was delivering his lectures on the Main Currents of Nineteenth Century Literature; from Norway came the deeply probing questionings of the granitic Ibsen; from across the North Sea from England echoes of the evolutionary theory and Darwinism. It was a time of controversy and bitterness, of a conflict joined between the old and the new, both going to extremes, in which nearly every one had a share.