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Growth of the Soil

Growth of the Soil

by Hamsun, Knut, 1859-1952

BookID: 10984

Language:English

Translator:Worster, W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander), 1882-1929

Uniform Title:Markens grøde. English

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 89.3 (6th grade). Easy to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

Norway -- Fiction

Description

"Growth of the Soil" by Knut Hamsun is a novel published in 1917 that won him the Nobel Prize in Literature. It follows Isak, a Norwegian man who settles on remote land and builds a farm from nothing. As his family grows and prospers through hard work, they face challenges from both nature and encroaching modernity. The story explores themes of primitive agrarian life, the bond between humans and land, and the tensions that arise when traditional rural existence confronts progress and civilization. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Class:PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures

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