Growth of the Soil - Paperback
by Knut Hamsun
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Availability:In StockContributor:Knut Hamsun, Sverre Lyngstad (Translator), Brad Leithauser (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2007-10-01Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780143105107ISBN-10:143105108UPC:9780143105107Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Family LifeSize:7.70 x 5.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCVZK1MGJY
Growth of the Soil
The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature, in the first new English translation in more than ninety years A Penguin Classic When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. Ninety years later it remains a transporting literary experience. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead...
Series: Penguin Classics
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780143105107ISBN-10:143105108UPC:9780143105107Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Family LifeSize:7.70 x 5.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCVZK1MGJY
Knut Hamsun (1858-1952) was a Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright hailed by many as one of the founders of modern literature. Born to a poor peasant family in central Norway, he worked as a schoolmaster, sheriff's assistant, laborer, store clerk, farmhand, and streetcar conductor in both Scandinavia and America before establishing himself as a successful playwright and novelist. His first...
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Knut Hamsun, Sverre Lyngstad (Translator), Brad Leithauser (Introduction by)
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