Victoria Book download in PDF, ePub & Mobi

Victoria is a novel by Knut Hamsun, first published in 1898. Set in late-nineteenth-century Norway, it tells a finely drawn love story shaped by rigid class divisions and the quiet pressures of small-town life.

A miller’s son grows up in love with a landowner’s daughter, yet their feelings are repeatedly thwarted by social expectation, ambition, and family obligation. Suitors, separations, and misunderstandings accumulate, forcing each to weigh desire against duty and the future promised by wealth and status.

Hamsun’s prose is lyrical and interior, lingering on landscapes, dreams, and symbols—the river, the mill, shifting seasons—to illuminate romantic idealism in conflict with practical compromise. Letters and chance meetings carry the story’s delicate tension, while the narration probes the restless psychology of longing.

Both tender and unsparing, Victoria endures as a concise portrait of love constrained by class and time. Its bittersweet resolution underscores the novel’s central insight: that the most profound choices often arrive when truth is recognized too late.

This digital edition of the book Victoria is based on the translation by Arthur G. Chater.