"The Pilot and his Wife" made its author a popular Norwegian writer, and as it has been translated into several European languages--there are, I believe, two English versions--it was the first step towards the wider reputation Lie now enjoys.

His next book was hardly a success.

Leaving, happily only for a time, Norwegian folk and Norwegian scenes, he attempted, in 1876, a drama in verse, "Faustina Strozzi," the plot of which is derived from an incident in modern Italian history.

He returned to Norwegian subjects in "Thomas Ross" and "Adam Schrader," published in 1878 and 1879, which deal with life and manners in Christiania; but even here he was not quite at home and these two novels are not of his best work.

"Rutland" and "Go Ahead!"-- "Gaa paa!"-- are much better, and these two stories of Norwegian life as exhibited in the merchant navy added greatly to Lie's popularity at home.
"The Slave for Life"-- "Livsslaven"-- 1883, is in a different vein.