Publisher's Synopsis
Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1915 edition. Extrait: ...manage him. Bjornson got tired and disgusted with all her plans of making him a subject of exhibition. He would not be handled in this way. He was bound to "gang his own gait" and was not willing to put on full dress at the bidding of Mrs. Bull. Nor was he able to endure the American customs of visits, dinners, and receptions. There was a rigidness about them unbearable to a man of Bjornson's antecedents and temperament. At times he could not help being what was thought positively rude. I being the one he knew best in the west he wrote to me again and again complaining most bitterly and telling me that his life in Cambridge and Boston was unendurable. I invited him to come to Madison and told him I would arrange a series of lectures for him among his countrymen in America, just as I had previously done for Kristofer Janson. Finally it came to a break between him and Mrs. Bull and her family. There was a terrible scene, Bjornson swearing vengeance on all of them. He fled. He had money enough to take him to New York; there he visited his old Danish friend, Clemens Petersen. It was Petersen who first introduced Bjornson to his Danish readers. Petersen was looked upon as one of the most gifted esthetical writers that Denmark ever produced. In America he mastered the English language completely and did much encyclopedia and magazine work. From Clemens Petersen Bjornson borrowed money to take him to Madison. Mrs. Bull, Mrs. Thorpe and Mr. Thorpe got frightened and wanted to make peace with Bjornson. They traced him to Chicago. Bjornson was at the Palmer House and Mrs. Bull and the Thorpes at the Grand Pacific. They wanted me as a mediator. They telegraphed for Mrs. Anderson and me to come to..."