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The rise of Jonas Olsen : a Norwegian immigrant's saga / Johannes B. Wist ; translated and with an introduction by Orm verland ; foreword by Todd W. Nichol.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wist, Johs. B. (Johannes Benjamin), 1864-1923.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Norwegians--United States--Fiction.
- Norwegians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (470 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Rise of Jonas Olsen is at once an immigrant novel, business novel, political novel, and a western, offering a rich and panoramic view of Scandinavian immigrant life in the Upper Midwest. Johannes B. Wist combines realism and satire to depict the role Norwegian Americans played in the economic, political, and cultural life of the Upper Midwest.
- Contents:
- Bk. 1. Scenes from the life of a newcomer: Jonas Olsen's first years in America
- bk. 2. The home on the prairie: Jonas Olsen's first year in the settlement
- bk. 3. Jonasville.
- Notes:
- "Published in cooperation with the Norwegian-American Historical Association."
- Translator's title.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-434).
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9817-1
- OCLC:
- 476095917
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