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Title: Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands

Author: Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson

Editor: Edmund Gosse

Release Date: January 5, 2007 [EBook #20291]

Language: English

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_THE NOVELS OF_
_BJOeRNSTJERNE BJOeRNSON_

_Edited by EDMUND GOSSE_

_Fcap. 8vo, cloth, 3s. net_

_Synnoeve Solbakken_
_Arne_
_A Happy Boy_
_The Fisher Lass_
_The Bridal March, & One Day_
_Magnhild, & Dust_
_Captain Mansana, & Mother's Hands_
_Absalom's Hair, & A Painful Memory_

_LONDON_
_WILLIAM HEINEMANN_
_21 Bedford Street, W.C._

CAPTAIN MANSANA

&

MOTHER'S HANDS

BY

BJOeRNSTJERNE BJOeRNSON

_Translated from the Norwegian_

LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
1897

_All rights reserved_

_BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE._

[_The two somewhat anomalous stories which are here published together
have little in common except the difficulty of finding a place for them
in the category of Bjoernson's works._

"_Captain Mansana_," _under the title of_ "_Kaptejn Mansana, en
Fortaelling fra Italien_," _was originally printed, in 1875, in the
Norwegian periodical_ "_Fra Fjeld og Dal_." _It did not appear in book
form until August 1879, when it was published, in a paper cover with
a startling illustration, in Copenhagen._ "_C