SOURCE: "Bojer's Works in America," in Johan Bojer: The Man and His Works by Carl Gad, translated by Elizabeth Jelliffe MacIntire, Moffat, Yard and Company, 1920, pp. 9-25.

In the following essay, Jones surveys the moral and spiritual themes in Bojer's fiction.

The series of English translations of Johan Bojer's novels, of which The Power of a Lie is the fourth, was begun by Messrs. Moffat, Yard & Co., with The Great Hunger in 1919. The Face of the World followed in the same year, Treacherous Ground and The Power of a Lie were both published early in 1920, Life announced for later in the year, and now this biography.

To my certain knowledge there has been nothing parallel in the last ten years, and I doubt if ever a foreign author has been acclimatized so quickly. Some English authors have made a success in this country and then their earlier works...