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Giants in the earth a saga of the Prairie

The classic story of 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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rølvaag, O. E. (Ole Edvart), 1876-1931
Other Authors:	Colcord, Lincoln, 1883-1947 (Translator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English Norwegian
Published:	New York : Harper Collins, 1927.
Subjects:	Norwegian Americans > Fiction. Dakota Territory > Fiction. South Dakota > Fiction.
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Summary:	The classic story of 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.
Physical Description:	530 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:	0060931930
Author Notes:	Norwegian-born Rolvaag emigrated to the United States at age 20 in 1896. Following a college education in Minnesota and Norway, he began the writing and teaching career (at St. Olaf College, Minnesota) that was to bring him fame as an interpreter of the Norwegian-American cultural experience. Rolvaag's understanding of immigrant life on the prairie was the source of novels that have given his name a solid place in both national literatures. His first, highly autobiographical work, The Third Life of Per Smevik (1912), was published under the pseudonym Paal Morck. Rolvaag's masterpiece, Giants in the Earth (1924--25), is his own translation, with Lincoln Colcord, of the first two of four novels dealing with the family of Per Hansa. Peder Victorious (1928) and Their Fathers' God (1931) complete the epic, although these two novels are less compelling.