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The Emigrants

Emigrant Novels Series, Book 1

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The Emigrants

By: Vilhelm Moberg, Gustaf Lannestock - translator, Roger McKnight - introduction
Narrated by: Ann Marie Arvdal Richardson
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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. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels.

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. First published between 1949 and 1959 in Swedish, these four books were considered a single work by Moberg, who intended that they be read as documentary novels. These editions contain introductions written by Roger McKnight, Gustavus Adolphus College.

Book 1 introduces Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their three young children, and 11 others who make up a resolute party of Swedes fleeing the poverty, religious persecution, and social oppression of Småland in 1850.

©1949 Vilhelm Moberg; Translation copyright 1951 by Gustaf Lannestock; New material copyright 1995 by the Minnesota Historical Society (P)2021 Tantor Historical Fiction Fiction Swedish Historical Fiction

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Great history insigjts about emigranta in 19 centru and their stuggle for better life in a new land

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I highly recommend it to all who want to read an historical novel, although it was written so many years ago it's an evergreen

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