A Happy Boy

A novel.
"A Happy Boy" was written in 1859 and 1860. Considered Bjornson's best story of peasant life. In it he has succeeded in drawing the characters with remarkable distinctness, while his profound psychological insight, his perfectly artless simplicity of style, and his thorough sympathy with the hero and his surroundings are nowhere more apparent. This view is perhaps sustained by the great popularity of "A Happy Boy" throughout Scandinavia.