Vilhelm Moberg

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1) Unto a good land

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Moberg, Vilhelm

Series

Emigrants series volume 2
Romanen om utvandrarna

Pub. Date

c1995

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First published in English in 1954, this novel opens in 1850 as a party of immigrants from Smaland, a province in Sweden, arrive in New York City. Their journey to a new home in Minnesota Territory takes them by river boat, steam wagon, Great Lakes steamship, and ox cart to Chisago County. Their life as farmers is difficult, but the kindness of friends, both American and Swedish, help to make it more bearable.

2) The settlers

Author

Moberg, Vilhelm

Series

Emigrants series volume 3
Romanen om utvandrarna volume 3

Pub. Date

1995

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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...

3) The Emigrants = Utvandrarna ;The New land = Nybggarna

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[2016]

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A monumental mid-nineteenth century epic that charts, over the course of two films, a poor Swedish farming family's voyage to America and their efforts to put down roots in this beautiful but forbidding new world. Includes bonus disc with special features

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Vilhelm Moberg

1) Unto a good land

2) The settlers

3) The Emigrants = Utvandrarna ;The New land = Nybggarna