One Of Life's Slaves

Jonas Lie

• Publisher: Roberts Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781447488316
• Print ISBN:
  9781409730873

One of Life's Slaves was penned in 1872 by the Norwegian author Jonas Lie. This edition was translated from Norwegian to English by Jessie Muir in 1895. In taking Christiania life for the subject of "Livsslaven," Jonas Lie attempted for the second time to break down the preconceived opinion of critics, that such a subject did not come within his province. They were accustomed to have tales of sea-life from his pen, and could not readily be persuaded that another sphere of life might afford equal scope for his talent. Lie himself, in speaking of this work, says that a writer should "aim at presenting his subject in such a way that the reader may see, hear, feel, and comprehend it with the utmost possible intensity." This precept he has certainly put into practice in the present instance, for the subject is treated with such power and so full a grasp, that in reading the book one feels an actual anxiety, an oppression as of approaching disaster.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Preface
• Contents
• Half title
• I. Neglected Responsibilities
• II. A Strict Disciplinarian
• III. A Fight and its Consequences
• IV. A Stolen Interview
• V. Among the Unemployed
• VI. The Factory Girls
• VII. “The World is Right Enough After All”
• VIII. An Unexpected Arrival
• IX. An Important Step Taken
• X. A Rise in Life
• XI. The Wedding Postponed Again
• XII. The Fair and the Convict