Growth of the Soil

By Hamsun, Knut

Book Id: WPLBN0002954446
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Reproduction Date: 2010

Title:	Growth of the Soil
Author:	Hamsun, Knut
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Growth of the Soil
Historic Publication Date:	1920
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Hamsun, B. K. (1920). Growth of the Soil. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Growth of the Soil (Markens Grøde) is the novel by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. The essential elements of this novel are expressed in the words of the English translator W.W. Worster in his footnote in December 1920: 'It is the life story of a man in the wilds, the genesis and gradual development of a homestead, the unit of humanity, in the unfilled, uncleared tracts that still remain in the Norwegian Highlands. It is an epic of earth; the history of a microcosm. Its dominant note is one of patient strength and simplicity; the mainstay of its working is the tacit, stern, yet loving alliance between Nature and the Man who faces her himself, trusting to himself and her for the physical means of life, and the spiritual contentment with life which she must grant if he be worthy. . .The story is epic in its magnitude, in its calm, steady progress and unhurrying rhythm, in its vast and intimate humanity. The author looks upon his characters with a great, all-tolerant sympathy, aloof yet kindly, as a god.'

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Fiction