"It's important to have Moberg's Emigrant Novels available for another generation of readers.
These editions contain introductions written by Roger McKnight, Gustavus Adolphus College, and restore Moberg's bibliography not included in earlier English editions.īook 1 introduces Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their three young children, and eleven others who make up a resolute party of Swedes fleeing the poverty, religious persecution, and social oppression of Småland in 1850. First published between 19 in Swedish, these four books were considered a single work by Moberg, who intended that they be read as documentary novels. The Emigrants (1949) is the first volume of Mobergs internationally famous tetralogy describing the lives of Swedish emigrants in the nineteenth century. Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections, including the Minnesota Historical Society, enabled him to incorporate many details of pioneer life. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels. : The Emigrants (The Emigrants, Volume 1) (9780140167566) by Moberg, Vilhelm and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices.
Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America.
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