1 option
The settlers / Vilhelm Moberg ; translated from the Swedish by Gustaf Lannestock ; with a new introduction by Roger McKnight.
Van Pelt Library PT9875.M5 N913 1995
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moberg, Vilhelm, 1898-1973.
- Series:
- Moberg, Vilhelm, 1898-1973. English ; Romanen om utvandrarna. bk. 3.
- Borealis books
- The emigrant novels / Vilhelm Moberg ; bk. 3
- Borealis books.
- Standardized Title:
- Nybyggarna. English
- Language:
- English
- Swedish
- Subjects (All):
- Swedish Americans--Fiction.
- Swedish Americans.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Minnesota--Fiction.
- Minnesota.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 399 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- St. Paul : Borealis Books, an imprint of Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1995.
- Summary:
- Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson struggle to prosper on their new farm in Minnesota during the 1850s. Kristina, coping with a feeling of loss for Sweden and the difficulty of adapting to a new land, draws strenth from a new found spirituality. Karl Oskar brings more land under cultivation and harvests rye, wheat, and corn. Together they survive blizzards, grasshopper plagues, wildcat speculation in currnecy, and self-righteous neighbors.
- Contents:
- Preface: The land they changed
- Part one: foundation for growth
- New axes ringing in the forest
- The whore and the thief
- Planning and planting
- Guests in their own house
- Man and woman in the territory
- Starkodder the ox
- Ulrika in her glory
- "That Baptist ilk"
- Hemlandet comes to the immigrants
- Surveying the forest
- The letter to Sweden
- Part two: Gold and water
- The march of the hundred thousand
- A youth who is not young
- But the returned gold seeker does not sleep
- The first night
- Robert's ear speaks
- While the riches lay hidden in the house
- The second night
- The missing gold seeker
- The third night
- Wildcats of many breeds
- The fourth night
- The unget-at-able
- The fifth night
- Wildcat riches
- A stream that runs toward greater waters
- Part three: Blessed woman
- The queen in the kitchen
- The year fifty-seven
- The letter from Sweden
- Karl Oskar's followers
- A blessed woman's prayer
- Partners of America
- If God doesn't exist ...
- Prayer granted
- To reconcile oneself with fate
- The letter to Sweden.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvii-xxix).
- ISBN:
- 0873513215
- 9780873513210
- OCLC:
- 32391776
- Publisher Number:
- 99978864360
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.