First published in English in 1925, Johan Bojer's 'The Emigrants' is the story of a group of Norwegians who leave Trondheim in the 1880s to homestead in the Red River Valley of North Dakota. Among the emigrants whose fortunes we follow are Else, daughter of the richest man of the parish, who must run away if she is to marry Ola Vatne, a hired hand; a young radical, Per Foll; Anton Noreng, called "Mother's darling," the spoiled son of the town clerk; Kal and Karen Skaret and their brood, the most impoverished of all the tenant farmers; the chronic malcontent, Jo Berg; Anne Ramsoy, daughter of a well-to-do farmer; and Morten Kvidal, who dreams of clearing the name of his father, who hanged himself after being unjustly accused of forgery. A superb storyteller, Bojer convincingly recounts the adversities, losses and triumphs which mark their adjustment to pioneer life. Quite apart from its narrative interest (as Paul Reigstad observes in his introduction), A"The Emigrants deserves to be read today because. it relates so many vital characters to an experience still fresh in the consciousness of Europeans and Americans, the settlement of the New World. Our understanding of human nature, as well as of the emigrant experience, is enlarged by reading this book, especially our knowledge of the conditions which impelled so many people, at great risk, to break ties with the beloved homeland."

The Emigrants

History

Bojer, Johan

Europe

Univ of Nebraska Pr

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Praeger

Bojer's novel of Norwegian emigration in the 1880s tells of young villagers who leave the Old World to seek a better life. Their trek takes them to homesteads in North Dakota, where they find that breaking the sod and surviving blizzards are easier than feeling at home in this new land.

Emigrants (Borealis Books)

Genre Fiction

Minnesota Historical Society Press

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Great Hunger

Contemporary

Amereon Limited

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

The Great Hunger

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The Great Hunger (Bibliolife Reproduction)

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Moder Lea: Roman (1900)

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

The Power Of A Lie (1909)

The Power of a Lie

Caine, Hall

Kessinger Pub

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The Emigrants

The Emigrants

Emigrants (Borealis Books)

Great Hunger

The Great Hunger

The Great Hunger (Bibliolife Reproduction)

Moder Lea: Roman (1900)

The Power Of A Lie (1909)

The Power of a Lie

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