Published in the fall of 1898, some six months after the author's death, it sold an impressive 400,000 copies during the following year.
The image of losing one's shadow when approaching the end of the world is found in Knut Hamsun's 1898 novel Victoria.
Two moderately successful short story collections followed, as well as his first conventional novel, The Kentuckians in 1898.
1898 With All the Powders of the Merchant published in The Pall Mall Magazine, September to December 1898
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