The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America.
Giants in the Earth was turned into an opera by Douglas Mo.
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.
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.
Giants 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 NationOle Edvart R lvaag\'s classic Norweigian-American immigration novel.
Giants 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) The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America.
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.
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.
Giants 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 NationOle Edvart R lvaag\'s classic Norweigian-American immigration novel.
The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America.
Giants in the Earth was turned into an opera by Douglas Moore and Arnold Sundgaard; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1951.
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.
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.
Giants 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 NationOle Edvart R lvaag\'s classic Norweigian-American immigration novel.
The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America
