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The Emigrants is the collective name of a series of four novels by Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg. Written in the mid-twentieth century, they explore the large Swedish emigration to the United States that started about a century before.
Sep 15, 1995 · 4.5 548 ratings. Book 1 of 4: Emigrant Novels. See all formats and editions. Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigrants in America.
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4 primary works • 16 total works. The Emigrants is the collective name of a four novel suite by the Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg. The novel-series describes the long and strenuous journey for a group of people in Småland, Sweden, as they emigrate to Minnesota, United States, where they settle during the Swedish emigration to North America ...
The Emigrants #1. Vilhelm Moberg. 4.20. 8,301 ratings532 reviews. Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigrants in America.
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Jan 1, 2001 · The Emigrants. W.G. Sebald, Michael Hulse (Translator) 4.17. 10,190ratings1,008reviews. Kindle $9.99. At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth century.
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The Emigrants (Swedish: Utvandrarna, 1949) is a novel by Vilhelm Moberg. It is the first of his four-novel series entitled The Emigrants. In these he explores the causes and process of the major Swedish emigration to the United States beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, and their settling in such frontier areas as the Minnesota Territory.
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The Emigrants (German: Die Ausgewanderten) is a 1992 collection of narratives by the German writer W. G. Sebald. It won the Berlin Literature Prize, the Literatur Nord Prize, and the Johannes Bobrowski Medal. The English translation by Michael Hulse was first published in 1996.