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Through the eyes of a commoner, the life of an aristocrat may seem blissful and otherworldly. At least, that’s how it must have been in Knut Hamsun’s day when he wrote Victoria. As his second novel, it was originally entitled Bjørger when it was published in Norway in 1878, but was adapted twenty years later into Victoria, an uncommon love story with a common theme: lovers separated by the chasm of class.