| Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie Perennial Class Edition Contributor(s): Rolvaag, OLE Edvart (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060931930 ISBN-13: 9780060931933 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2022 Annotation: The classic story of 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 28017933 |
| Lexile Measure: 830 |
| Series: Perennial Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.32" H x 5.36" W x 8.04" (1.03 lbs) 560 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Plains - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 739 Reading Level: 8.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 28.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America. -- The Nation Ole Edvart R lvaag'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 R lvaag'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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rolvaag, OLE Edvart: - O. E. Rölvaag was born in 1876. His books include Peder Victorious and Their Fathers' God. He died in 1931. |