After settling in South Dakota, Per Hansa, a Norwegian, tries to change his wife's attitudes about their new life

Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie

Literature & Fiction

Rølvaag, Ole Edvart

Literary

Demco Media

Susie Doheny, an Irish Catholic, and Peder Holm, a Norwegian Lutheran, fall in love and marry in South Dakota in the 1890s. Soon their marriage is tested by drought, depression, and family bickering. Susie believes they are being tested by their fathers' God. 
Peder blames Susie for the timidity of her beliefs; Susie fears Peder's pride and skepticism. When political antagonism grows between the Norwegian and Irish immigrant communities, it threatens to split their marriage.
Against a backdrop of hard times, crisscrossed by Populists, antimonopolists, and schemers, Rölvaag brings the struggle of immigrants into the twentieth century. In Giants in the Earth the Holm family strained to wrest a homestead from the land. In Peder Victorious the American-born children searched for a new national identity, often defying the traditions their parents fought to uphold. In Their Fathers' God, Rölvaag's most soul-searching novel, the first-generation americans enter a world of ruthless competition in the midst of scarcity. 
The University of Nebraska Press also publishes Peder Victorious and Paul Reigstad's Rölvaag: His Life and Art.

Their Fathers' God (Bison Book S)

Rolvaag, O.E.

United States

Bison Books

"The story ofthe sequel to Rölvaag's massive Giants in the Earth, continues the saga of the Norwegian settlers in the Dakotas. Here again, years later, are all the sturdy pioneers of the earlier novel, Rölvaag's "vikings of the prairie"-Per Hansa's Beret and their children, Syvert Tönseten and Kjersti, and Sörine. The great struggle against the land itself has been won. Now there is to be a second struggle, a struggle to adapt, to become Americans.The development of the Spring Creek settlement in these years is manifested in the rebellious growing up of Peder Victorious. Peder is a beautiful and moving novel of youth and youth's self-discovery. It is the story, too, of Beret's pain and dismay at the Americanization of her children, what Rölvaag described as the true tragedy of the immigrants, who made their children part of a world to which they themselves could never belong.Out of the inevitable conflict between the first-generation American and his still Norwegian mother, Rölvaag built a powerful novel of personal growth, guilt, and victory." from Google books

Peder Victorious: A Novel (English and Norwegian Edition)

Greenwood Pub Group

During the late nineteenth century, irreconcilable religious beliefs threaten the marriage between a Norwegian Lutheran and Irish Roman Catholic

Their Fathers' God: A Novel (English and Norwegian Edition)

Pure Gold (English and Norwegian Edition)

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections  such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,  or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,  have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works  worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.    ++++  The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:  ++++   Længselens Baat: Film-billeder Ole Edvart Rølvaag Augsburg, 1921 Literary Criticism; European; Scandinavian; Fiction / General; Literary Criticism / European / Scandinavian

Længselens Baat: Film-billeder... - Primary Source Edition (Danish Edition)

History

Europe

Nabu Press

1929. Peder Victorious is one of the novels in Rolvaag's famous trilogy, which also includes Giants in the Earth and Their Father's God. They are considered to be the fullest, finest, and most powerful works to have been written about pioneer life in America. This epic tale tells the story of Per Hansa as he moves his family from a fishing village in Norway to the plains of the Dakota Territory in the last part of the 19th century. The book chronicles the 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. Contents: The Song of Life's Dismay; The Mill of the Gods; The Eyes That Did Not See; and The Song of the Shulamite. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Peder Victorious

Contemporary

Kessinger Pub Co

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