02545cam a22003133u 4500 76450 UtSlPG 20260610134753.0 m cr n 260607r20251921utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG no iso639-1 PT Øberg, Edith, 1895-1968 Boblen Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2025-07-06 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.) Originally published: Kristiania: Aschehoug, 1921 Norwegian fiction https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100862061 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76450 117175 117175