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 | Sep 17, 2021 |
| Last Update | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 456 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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