Books: Inward
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The Author. Like his hero, Kurt Heuser is young (27). He suffered from Europe's mental depression and took his gloomy thoughts to Africa. While he and a friend struggled with a cotton plantation in Portuguese East Africa, Heuser filled his spare time writing, sent the result apologetically to German editors. When cotton's market price sank below cost, Heuser abandoned his plantation, went home to Germany to be an author, found himself taken as a lion out of Africa.
in Lavransdatter.
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