Project Gutenberg 2025-07-06 Public domain in the USA. 139 Øberg, Edith 1895 1968 Oberg, Edith Øberg, Edith Justine Boblen $aKristiania :$bAschehoug, $c1921. Jens Sadowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library. Boblen by Edith Øberg is a novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on the intense, unequal friendship between Gudrun Haavaldsen, a poor, impulsive girl from a crowded home, and Berit Sørlie, the immaculate, sunlit child next door whom Gudrun idolizes as “the Bubble.” Through schoolroom rituals, a coveted garden, dollhouse play, and talk of futures, it probes class difference, social polish, ambition, and the pains of adolescent attachment. The opening of the novel follows Gudrun spying through a fence at Berit on a swing, then meeting her at school and being seated beside her. Gudrun tutors Berit in arithmetic, is welcomed to the garden for coffee and waffles, and their bond forms—devotion from Gudrun, cool control from Berit—shaped by manners, language, and status. Gudrun remakes herself: she studies hard, drops rough play, cleans in a bookshop, and feeds their shared fantasies with magazine images, while Berit sets boundaries and refuses sentiment. At middle school a fashionable classmate, Else, draws Berit away; a brutal class favorite, Leif, repels Gudrun in a telling mimosa-plant scene. As autumn brings a shabby coat for Gudrun and a piano for Berit, jealousy and snobbery sharpen; Gudrun overhears Else and Berit belittling her, confronts Berit, and they quarrel. The section closes with Berit moving her things and seat to Else’s side, leaving Gudrun to wander off alone in the cold, devastated. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100862061 20230122045149berg 1921 no Reading ease score: 92.3 (5th grade). Very easy to read. no Norwegian fiction PT Text Category: Novels 233773 2025-09-30T07:47:41.710462 text/html 209023 2025-07-06T11:32:54 text/html 279802 2025-09-30T07:47:46.438479 application/epub+zip 278760 2025-09-30T07:47:42.987430 application/epub+zip 191438 2025-09-30T07:47:42.296453 application/epub+zip 598662 2025-09-30T07:47:48.963426 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 578881 2025-09-30T07:47:45.873472 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 203925 2025-09-30T07:47:41.049487 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 184122 2025-07-06T11:32:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15677 2025-09-30T07:47:49.089432 application/rdf+xml 12639 2025-09-30T07:47:42.493466 image/jpeg 2369 2025-09-30T07:47:42.392441 image/jpeg 354564 2025-09-30T07:47:41.735492 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia