Denmark's hidden classics, newly in English.

Governesses and proud squires, Copenhagen cafés and Jutland heaths, love poems composed on jolting peasant carts, a stolen detective's letter, Humboldt on the road to the Urals, and Andersen's emperor in his invisible clothes. 52 books from the Golden Age to the first Danish modernists, complete and unabridged.

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Danish literature in English usually means Andersen and Kierkegaard. These are the books around them: Golden Age love poetry, governess novels and drawing-room comedies, the novels of the Modern Breakthrough and the first Danish modernists.

AI-assisted translation, prepared and edited by Valentin Sarić. The translations are made from the original Danish texts, complete and unabridged, with translator's notes and endnotes on titles, money, places and customs. Verse is translated line for line.