old work. a favorite of my mother's
Vilhelm Moberg Boeken
20 augustus 1898 – 8 augustus 1973
Vilhelm Moberg was een Zweedse auteur die gevierd werd om zijn romans die de ervaringen van Zweedse emigranten naar Amerika verhalend weergeven. Zijn literaire bijdragen doken diep in de Zweedse geschiedenis en maatschappelijke kwesties, waarbij hij de monarchie, bureaucratie en corruptie onbevreesd bekritiseerde. Als vooraanstaand publiek intellectueel was Moberg een vurige debater die deelnam aan publieke discussies en zich fel verzette tegen totalitaire regimes. Zijn schrijfstijl wordt gewaardeerd om zijn authenticiteit en zijn diepe vermogen om individuele lotsbestemmingen binnen historische contexten te vangen.
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 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 editions contain introductions written by Roger McKnight, Gustavus Adolphus College, and restore Moberg's bibliography not included in earlier English editions.Book 3 focuses on Karl Oskar and Kristina as they adapt to their new homeland and struggle to survive on their new farm.
Last Letter Home
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Book Four portrays the Nilsson family during the turmoil of living through the era of the Civil War and Dakota Conflict and their prospering in the midst of Minnesota's growing Swedish community of the 1860s-90s.
A revealing and entertaining account of Sweden's past - now in paperback!
Beginning in prehistoric times and culminating with the Dacke rebellion of 1542, renowned novelist Vilhelm Moberg's two-volume popular history of the Swedish people approaches its subject from the viewpoint of the common people, documenting peasants' lives as well as those of the royal families. In this first volume Moberg examines Viking raids, the coming of Christianity, and the Folkungs royal dynasty, whose tyrannical reign lasted from 1250 to the 1360s. He vividly describes the arrival of the Black Death from a ship that docked carrying only dead passengers, and he recounts the reign of Queen Margareta who founded the Kalmar Union, comprising all of Scandinavia. In every chapter, Moberg faithfully imparts how history affected "the whole people" of Sweden.
Vystěhovalci 1
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Hrdinkou románu je mladá čínská žena z konzervativní aristokratické rodiny, jež se hodlá provdat za muže přivyklého americkému životnímu stylu, což je příčinou neustálé konfrontace dvou civilizací.
Vystěhovalci 4: Poslední dopis do Švédska
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4. část rodinné ságy V poslední části románové ságy se uzavírají osudy Nilssonovy rodiny.
