Growth of the Soil  -  Knut Hamsun

original title "Markens Grode"

KORTE INHOUD

The theme is simple to the point of austerity. A man goes into the wilderness, builds a hut with his own hands, breaks ground, marries, rears a family, sows and plows mightily until he is overtaken by old age. And out of the material afforded by quiet, uneventful lives of the pioneer, Isak, and his neighbors Knut Hamsun's genius creates a monumental epic of man's eternal friendly struggle with soil which gives him bread and clothing....
1978 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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1978 Uitgever: Alfred A. Knopf Vertaler: W.W. Worster 435 paginas Taal: Engels