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Segen der Erde: Roman
by Hamsun, Knut
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Creators: Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) and Pauline Klaiber (1855-1944) [Translator] "Segen der Erde: Roman" by Knut Hamsun is a novel published in 1917 that won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. It follows Isak, a Norwegian man who settles on wild land and builds a farm from nothing. As his family grows and modernity encroaches through telegraph lines and copper mining, their simple agrarian life faces new challenges. The novel celebrates primitive values and humanity's relationship with the soil, while chronicling the tensions between traditional rural existence and the forces of progress. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading Level: Reading ease score: 81.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. Rights: Public domain in the USA. Downloads: 565