Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie - Ole Edvart Rolvaag

Descriere Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie - Ole Edvart Rolvaag

\nThe fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America. -- The NationOle Edvart R lvaag's classic Norweigian-American immigration novel. \n \nGiants in the Earth follows a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America. The book is based partly on R lvaag's personal experiences as a settler, and on the experiences of his wife's family who had been immigrant homesteaders. The novel depicts snow storms, locusts, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, the difficulty of fitting into a new culture, and the estrangement of immigrant children who grow up in a new land. \n \nGiants in the Earth was turned into an opera by Douglas Moore and Arnold Sundgaard; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1951. \nThe fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America. -- The NationOle Edvart R lvaag's classic Norweigian-American immigration novel. \n \nGiants in the Earth follows a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America. The book is based partly on R lvaag's personal experiences as a settler, and on the experiences of his wife's family who had been immigrant homesteaders. The novel depicts snow storms, locusts, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, the difficulty of fitting into a new culture, and the estrangement of immigrant children who grow up in a new land. \n \nGiants in the Earth was turned into an opera by Douglas Moore and Arnold Sundgaard; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1951.--Times Literary Supplement (London) \nThe fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America. -- The NationOle Edvart R lvaag's classic Norweigian-American immigration novel. \n \nGiants in the Earth follows a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America. The book is based partly on R lvaag's personal experiences as a settler, and on the experiences of his wife's family who had been immigrant homesteaders. The novel depicts snow storms, locusts, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, the difficulty of fitting into a new culture, and the estrangement of immigrant children who grow up in a new land. \n \nGiants in the Earth was turned into an opera by Douglas Mo

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9780060931933

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