The Emigrants

by Vilhelm Moberg, Roger McKnight Narrated by Ann Marie Arvdal Richardson

Overview

Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers 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, including the Minnesota Historical Society, 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 editions contain introductions written by Roger McKnight, Gustavus Adolphus College.



Book 1 introduces Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their three young children, and eleven others who make up a resolute party of Swedes fleeing the poverty, religious persecution, and social oppression of Småland in 1850.

Editorial Reviews

Library Journal

Published between 1951 and 1961, Moberg's four-volume "Emigrant" epic offers the saga of the Swedish immigrant's role in the settling of the American frontier.

Booknews

**** Cited in BCL3, with two--not all three--of its companions. The English translation of the Emigrant Novels was published by Simon & Schuster between 1951 & '61. Also reprinted by the Minnesota Historical Society Press are the other titles: Unto a Good Land, bk.2; The Settlers, bk.3; and The Last Letter Home, bk.4. Moberg regarded this as a single work on the privations & durability of the Swedish immigrants to Minnesota beginning in 1850. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172961878
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	09/14/2021
Series:	Emigrant Novels , #1
Edition description:	Unabridged

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