Giants in the Earth [electronic resource] : A Saga of the Prairie
Ole Edvart Rolvaag2023
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"The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about
pioneer life in America."-The Nation
O. E. Rolvaag's classic novel of a family of Norwegian settlers in the Great
Plains-a vivid and intimate portrait of the nineteenth-century immigrant
experience and the exploration of America
Based in part on Ole Edvart Rølvaag's own recollections as well of those of his
wife's family who were immigrant homesteaders, Giants in the Earth is the
riveting story of a Norwegian family forging a new life amid the harsh, desolate
climate of the Dakota Territory. Rølvaag recounts the hardships they endured on
the high prairie-blizzards, locust storms, poverty, hunger, loneliness,
homesickness, and culture shock-as well as their simple joys, culminating in a
magnificent epic that bridges Norwegian culture and the history of the American
dream.
"A moving narrative of pioneer hardship and heroism. . . . The background of the
boundless Dakota prairie, with its mysterio...
Main title:
Giants in the Earth [electronic resource] : A Saga of the Prairie / Ole Edvart Rolvaag
Author:
Ole Edvart Rolvaag, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2023
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (560 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780063308343
Language:
English
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BRN:
435998
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