Description: The Emigrant Novels: Books #I, II, III, IV by Vilhelm Moberg, (Trade Paperback).1995 - Minnesota Historical Society Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigrants 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 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 reprint editions contain introductions written by Roger McKnight of Gustavus Adolphus College, and they restore Moberg's bibliography not included in earlier English editions. The Emigrants (I)Unto a Good Land (II)The Settlers (III)The Last Letter Home (IV) About the Author:Vilhelm Moberg was a Swedish journalist, author, playwright, historian, and debater best known for his Emigrant series of novels about Swedish emigrants to America. He also wrote other novels and plays and also participated in public debates about the Swedish monarchy, bureaucracy, and corruption. Among other works are Raskens (1927) and Ride This Night (1941), a historical novel of a 17th-century rebellion in Småland acknowledged for its subliminal but widely recognized criticism against the Hitler regime. A noted public intellectual and debater in Sweden, he was noted for very vocal criticism of the Swedish monarchy (most notably after the Haijby affair), likening it with a servile government by divine mandate, and publicly supporting its replacement with a Swiss-style confederal republic. He spoke out aggressively against the policies of Nazi Germany, the Greek military junta, and the Soviet Union, and his works were among those destroyed in Nazi book burnings. In 1971, he scolded Prime Minister Olof Palme for refusing to offer the Nobel Prize in Literature to its recipient Alexander Solzhenitsyn – who was refused permission to attend the ceremony in Stockholm – through the Swedish embassy in Moscow.
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Book Title: The Emigrant Novels: Books: #I, II, III, IV
Book Series: The Emigrant Novels
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Item Length: 5.5 in
Original Language: Swedish
Edition: Reprint Edition
Vintage: Yes
Publication Year: 1995
Type: Novel
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 8.25 in
Author: Vilhelm Moberg
Genre: Historic Drama
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Swedish-American culture
