After the narrator moves into the tinker's shack he begins to see a lady in black on the streetcorner, when he goes to speak to her, he finds out that she is the same woman he had admonished earlier about losing her book.
After the narrator moves into the tinker's shack he begins to see a lady in black on the streetcorner, when he goes to speak to her, he finds out that she is the same woman he had admonished earlier about losing her book. A writer by trade, during the course of the novel the narrator sells a story for a half sovereign, but cannot get anyone to read his work on Corregio. Continually beset by feverish dreams that he attributes to the titular condition, he finds some relief after getting back the wrong change at a shop, which allows him to buy breakfast, but as the novel ends he is tossed out once again and made to wander the streets. FTP identify this 1890 novel which traces the psychology of a nutritionally deprived character, a work by Knut Hamsun.
After the narrator moves into the tinker's shack he begins to see a lady in black on the streetcorner, when he goes to speak to her, he finds out that she is the same woman he had admonished earlier about losing her book.
Hunger