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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... Read Full Overview

The man comes, walking toward the north. He bears a sack, the first sack, carrying food and some few implements. A strong, coarse fellow, with a red iron beard, and little scars on face and hands; sites of old wounds---were they gained in toil or fight? Maybe the man has been... Read Full Overview

"The Growth of the Soil" is the novel by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.Stylistically it has a simplicity which reflects its subject matter and there prevails what Worster calls a "Miltonic monumental calm". Hamsun also has the... Read Full Overview

The story of an elemental existence in rural Norway.

WINNER - Nobel Prize for Literature In the remote wilderness of Norway, a solitary pioneer named Isak carves a life out of the raw, untamed earth. Growth of the Soil is a masterful epic that explores the profound connection between humanity and the land. With unflinching realism... Read Full Overview

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Growth of the Soil (Norwegian Markens Gr de), is a novel by Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. It follows the story of a man who settles and lives in rural Norway. First published in 1917, it has since been translated from Norwegian into languages... Read Full Overview

The long, long road over the moors and up into the forest-who trod it into being first of all? Man, a human being, the first that came here. There was no path before he came. Afterward, some beast or other, following the faint tracks over marsh and moorland, wearing them deeper;... Read Full Overview

First published in 1917, "Growth of the Soil" is the epic and seminal work by Knut Hamsun, the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian writer. Originally published in Norwegian and subsequently translated into numerous languages and read around the world, "Growth of the Soil" has been... Read Full Overview