A Walk to an Ant Hill and Other Essays
About this book
Frans G. Bengtsson -- poet, novelist, essayist, and historian, with a taste for "the kind of history which provides the stuff of poetry and food for the imagination" -- started his literary career in 1923 with a collection of poems, and has now, at the age of 55, published nine books. His writing is distinguished by his wide reading (which shows a marked preference for English literature", brilliant style, developed along classical lines, and sparkling wit. With his feeling for the romance and heroism of the past, Frans G. Bengtsson finds it a worthy task to sing of arms and men.Mr. Bengtsson has achieved widespread popularity in his native Sweden with his biography of King Charles XII and his novel about that adventurous and colourful Viking, Red Orm. Over 40,000 copies of his latest collection of essays have already been sold. As an essayist he is unrivalled in Sweden.A Walk to an Ant Hill is a selection from Frans G. Bengtsson's five books of essays which contains much of the best he has written.