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| Genre/Form: | Fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Knut Hamsun; Sverre Lyngstad |
| ISBN: | 9780143105107 0143105108 |
| OCLC Number: | 80361342 |
| Description: | xx, 328 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Series Title: | Penguin classics. |
| Other Titles: | Markens grøde. |
| Responsibility: | Knut Hamsun ; translated with explanatory and textual notes by Sverre Lyngstad ; introduction by Brad Leithauser. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature-the first new English translation since the novel's original publication ninety years ago.
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""Growth of the Soil" impresses me as among the very greatest novels I have ever read. It is wholly beautiful; it is saturated with wisdom and humor and tenderness."<br> -H. G. Wells<br><br> "The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun."<br> -Isaac Bashevis Singer<br><br> Read more...
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