Giants In the Earth

"The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America."-- The Nation O. E. Rolvaag''s classic novel of a family of Norwegian settlers in the Great Plains--a vivid and intimate portrait of the nineteenth-century immigrant experience and the exploration of America Based in part on Ole Edvart Rølvaag''s own recollections as well of those of his wife''s family who were immigrant homesteaders, Giants in the Earth is the riveting story of a Norwegian family forging a new life amid the harsh, desolate climate of the Dakota Territory. Rølvaag recounts the hardships they endured on the high prairie--blizzards, locust storms, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, and culture shock--as well as their simple joys, culminating in a magnificent epic that bridges Norwegian culture and the history of the American dream. "A moving narrative of pioneer hardship and heroism. . . . The background of the boundless Dakota prairie, with its mysterious distances and its capacity for evil, is painted with alternating beauty and grimness." -- The Atlantic

About the author

O. E. Rölvaag was born in 1876. His books include Peder Victorious and Their Fathers' God. He died in 1931.

Product details

• Authors: O. E. Rlvaag, O Rolvaac, O. E. Rolvaag, OLE E. Rolvaag, Ole Edvart Rolvaag
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.08.1999
• EAN: 9780060931933
• ISBN: 978-0-06-093193-3
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 202 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Perennial Classics; Perennial Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, Historical fiction, Anthologies: general, Adventure fiction: Westerns, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Romance / Historical / 20th Century, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, LITERATURE: HISTORICAL, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, FICTION: Classics, LITERATURE: CLASSICS, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, classics;fiction;2021;2022;2023, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Classic fiction: general and literary, Literature / General Fiction, Literature / Classics, Literature / Historical