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Growth of the Soil

Growth of the Soil

Hamsun, Knut
Lyngstad, Sverre
Leithauser, Brad

Paperback

Series: Penguin Classics

Classic FictionGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0143105108
ISBN13: 9780143105107
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Oct 1 2007
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature, in the first new English translation in more than ninety years

A Penguin Classic

When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. Ninety years later it remains a transporting literary experience. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the Norwegian back country, Knut Hamsun evokes the elemental bond between humans and the land. Newly translated by the acclaimed Hamsun scholar Sverre Lyngstad, Hamsun's novel is a work of preternatural calm, stern beauty, and biblical power--and the crowning achievement of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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