Author:O. E. ROLVAAG, OLE EDVART ROLVAAG

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Peder Victorious : A Tale of the Pioneers Twenty Years Later

By: O. E. ROLVAAG, OLE EDVART ROLVAAG

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr: 1982-04-01

Seller ID: 20070607104355

ISBN: 0803289065

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Peder Victorious, the sequel to Rolvaag'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, Rolvaag's "vikings of the prairie"--Per Hansa's Beret and their children, Syvert Tonseten and Kjersti, and Sorine. 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. Pe...
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Their Fathers God

By: OLE EDVART ROLVAAG

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr: January 1983

Seller ID: 139724

ISBN: 0803289111

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

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, Rolvaag brings the struggle o...
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Author:O. E. ROLVAAG, OLE EDVART ROLVAAG

Peder Victorious : A Tale of the Pioneers Twenty Years Later

Their Fathers God