Author:Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
(1848–1895)

Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

Works

Translations

• Two Friends (orig. 1879) by Alexander Lange Kielland

Fiction

• Gunnar: A Tale of Norse Life (1874)
• A Norseman's Pilgrimage (1875)
• Falconberg (1879)
• A Daughter of the Philistines (1883)
• Alpine Roses (1884) (play)
• A Daring Fiction (1884)
• Against Heavy Old (1890)
• The Mammon of Unrighteousness (1891)
• The Social Strugglers (1893)
• Against heavy odds: a tale of Norse heroism, and a fearless trio (1894)
• Mikkel (Unknown)

Collections

• Ilka on the Hill Top and Other Stories (1881)
  • Ilka On the Hill-Top — Annunciata — Under the Glacier — A Knight of Dannebrog — Mabel and I — How Mr. Storm Met His Destiny
• Vagabond Tales (1889)
• Idyls of Norway and Other Poems (1892) (poems)
• Boyhood in Norway: Stories of Boy-life in the Land of the Midnight Sun (1892)
  • The Battle of the Rafts — Biceps Grimlund's Christmas Vacation (1888) — The Nixy's Strain — The Wonder Child — "The Sons of the Vikings" — Paul Jespersen's Masquerade — Lady Clare — Bonnyboy — The Child of Luck — The Bear That Had a Bank Account
• Norse Tales (1894)
• The Modern Vikings; Stories of Life and Sport in the Norseland (1894)
  • Tharald's Otter — Between Sea and Sky (1886) — Mikkel — The Famine Among the Gnomes — How Bernt Went Whaling — The Cooper and the Wolves — Magnie's Dangerous Ride — Thorwald and the Star-Children — Big Hans and Little Hans — A New Winter Sport — The Skerry of Shrieks — Fiddle-John's Family

Non-fiction

• Goethe and Schiller (1879)
• The history of Norway : from the earliest times (1886)
• Essays on German Literature (1892)
• A Commentary on the Works of Henrik Ibsen (1894)
• Essays on Scandinavian Literature (1895)
  • Björnstjerne Björnson — Alexander Kielland — Jonas Lie — Hans Christian Andersen — Contemporary Danish Literature — Georg Brandes — Esaias Tegnér

Works from magazines

• "Evolution" in Popular Science Monthly, 23 (June 1883)
• "Between Sea and Sky" (1886-87, St. Nicholas) ss
• "A Perilous Incognito" (1887, Scribner's) 2-part ss
• "Life for Life" (1887, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine)
• "Charity" (1888, Scribner's) 2-part ss
• "Biceps Grimlund's Christmas Vacation" (1888, St. Nicholas Magazine)
• "The Two Mollies. A City Sketch" (1889, Scribner's) ss
• "A Pagan Incantation" (1889, Scribner's) nvt
• "The Sun's Sisters" (A Lappish Fairy Tale) (1889, St. Nicholas Magazine)
• "A Platonic Affair" (1889-90, Harper's) ss
• "In Collusion With Fate" (1896, Scribner's) ss

Non-fiction

• "An Acquaintance with Hans Christian Andersen" (1892, Century)
• "Norwegian Painters" (1892, Scribner's)