Review: Growth of the Soil
Nutzerbericht - Casey - GoodreadsThe Growth of the Soil is about Isak and the work on his land in the wilds. Over time, he grows more prosperous, there are more people and more technology, but Isak never deviates from his work. He ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Growth of the Soil
Nutzerbericht - Stein - Goodreads*Unpretentiousy simple in style but rich in humanistic insight* Having read the first chapters of this book the modern reader may wonder how this work contributed to Knut Hamsun being awarded the ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Growth of the Soil
Nutzerbericht - Ensiform - GoodreadsIsak, a strong silent barge of a man, blazes a trail through Norwegian wilderness and sets up a small holding through the sweat of his brow. He meets Inger, a shy woman with a harelip, who becomes his ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Growth of the Soil
Nutzerbericht - Emilian Kasemi - GoodreadsKnut Hamsun, a Nobel price winner, soon followed, without success, the literary vocation. Autodidact, after he left school early, at the age of 14, he made several jobs; shoemaker, ticket collector ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Growth of the Soil
Nutzerbericht - Анастасия Шартогашева - Goodreads"Growth of the Soil" is a solution for the eternal complex of an intelligent: "I do not hoe the soil, I do not grow bread, I am not taking part in everyday labor that is meant for a human". The ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Growth of the Soil
Nutzerbericht - Thom Swennes - Goodreads“Heaven is blessed with the prefect rest but blessing the earth is toil” (Henry van Dyke 1853-1933) Isak, a simple but honest man, travels to wild forested country far away from civilization. When he ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Growth of the Soil
Nutzerbericht - Bettie - GoodreadsNutty NUUT read To find Project Gutenberg provides: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10984 Translated from the Norwegian by WW WORSTER [ORIGINAL TITLE "MARKENS GRØDE"] The long, long road over the ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Growth of the Soil
Nutzerbericht - Tony - GoodreadsGROWTH OF THE SOIL. (1917). Knut Hamsun. *****. The plan is that I will ultimately read all of Hamsun's novels in translation; my Danish isn't good enough to read in the original. I've cheated a ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Growth of the Soil
Nutzerbericht - Jakey Gee - GoodreadsPolitically a little dubious (knowing how Knut Hamsun ended up a total Nazi), but still very rich and rewarding. It has of course got 'Volk' all over it (towns and cosmopolitan new ways generally ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Growth of the Soil
Nutzerbericht - GoodreadsI read Growth of the Soil in anticipation of visiting Norway this summer. We rented an apartment in Oslo and I asked the owner for a recommendaton of a book by a Norwegian author. She gave me some ...
