Segen der Erde: Roman by Knut Hamsun

"Segen der Erde: Roman" by Knut Hamsun is a novel published in 1917 that won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. It follows Isak, a Norwegian man who settles on wild land and builds a farm from nothing. As his family grows and modernity encroaches through telegraph lines and copper mining, their simple agrarian life faces new challenges. The novel celebrates primitive values and humanity's relationship with the soil, while chronicling the tensions between traditional rural existence and the forces of progress. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Hamsun, Knut, 1859-1952
Translator Klaiber, Pauline, 1855-1944
Uniform Title Markens grøde. German
Title Segen der Erde: Roman
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_the_Soil Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segen_der_Erde
Credits Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Reading Level Reading ease score: 81.3 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language German
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Norway -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 66326
Release Date
Last Update Oct 18, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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