Books with title Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie

"The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America." — The NationOle Edvart Rølvaag's classic Norweigian-American immigration novel. Giants in the Earth follows a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America. The book is based partly on Rølvaag's personal experiences as a settler, and on the experiences of his wife’s family who had been immigrant homesteaders. The novel depicts snow storms, locusts, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, the difficulty of fitting into a new culture, and the estrangement of immigrant children who grow up in a new land.Giants in the Earth was turned into an opera by Douglas Moore and Arnold Sundgaard; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1951.

Excerpt from Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie I am aware of the slight Similarity existing between Johan Bojer's The Emigrants and certain portions of the First Book of my novel; and lest the reader should consider me guilty Of having plagiarized him, I find it necessary to Ofi'er the information that The land-taking was in the hands of the Norwegian book dealers a little better than one month before Bojer's book appeared. In a letter to me, dated January 11, 1925, Mr. Bojer writes: It certainly was fortunate for me that I got my book finished when I did. Had it appeared much later, I should have been ac cused of having plagiarized you. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie I am aware of the slight Similarity existing between Johan Bojer's The Emigrants and certain portions of the First Book of my novel; and lest the reader should consider me guilty Of having plagiarized him, I find it necessary to Ofi'er the information that The land-taking was in the hands of the Norwegian book dealers a little better than one month before Bojer's book appeared. In a letter to me, dated January 11, 1925, Mr. Bojer writes: It certainly was fortunate for me that I got my book finished when I did. Had it appeared much later, I should have been ac cused of having plagiarized you. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This book was written by O. E. Rolvaag of Norway. He was born in Norway and came to the US. when he was 20 years old. He farmed with his Uncle for a couple of years and decided he wanted an education. He loved to read and wanted to write. He got his education. He became a professor at St. Olaf college in Minnesota. He wrote many books but always in Norwegian. When he wrote "Giants in The Earth". He became very well known as a treat writer. The book is about a family from Norway along with friends from Norway who settle in South Dakota. They had to go to Sioux Falls to register the land grant which was a 52 mile trip on horse. It tells about the struggles to make it in this quiet countryside, the cold winters, making a living. How some survived and some did not. This book has become a classic and is on the reading lists for many Literature classes.I appreciated the book because my Grandmother came from Norway to the US when she was just 3 years old. She had her own homestead in South Dakota between Philip and Kadoka at just the age of 19.