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The Last Letter Home: The Emigrant Novels: Book IV
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Series: Emigrant Novels, Book 4
General FictionHistorical Fiction
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ISBN10: 0873513223
ISBN13: 9780873513227
Publisher: Borealis Books
Published: Sep 15 1995
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780873513227
Publisher: Borealis Books
Published: Sep 15 1995
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigrants 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 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 reprint editions contain introductions written by Roger McKnight of Gustavus Adolphus College, and they restore Moberg's bibliography not included in earlier English editions.
The fourth and final book in the series, The Last Letter Home portrays the Nilsson family during the turmoil of living through the era of the Civil War and Dakota Conflict and their prospering in the midst of Minnesota's growing Swedish community of the 1860s-90s.
The other books in the series--The Emigrants (I), Unto a Good Land (II), and The Settlers (III)--are also available from the Minnesota Historical Society Press.
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