Growth of the Soil

Knut Hamsun, Sverre Lyngstad, Brad Leithauser

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English

Penguin
18 May 2011

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

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 Soilwas immediately recognized as a masterpiece. Ninety years later it remains a transporting literary experience. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the Norwegian back country, Knut Hamsun evokes the elemental bond between humans and the land. Newly translated by the acclaimed Hamsun scholar Sverre Lyngstad, Hamsun's novel is a work of preternatural calm, stern beauty, and biblical power-and the crowning achievement of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

By: Knut Hamsun
Introduction by: Brad Leithauser
Translated by: Sverre Lyngstad
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 278g
ISBN: 9780143105107
ISBN 10: 0143105108
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 18 May 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Growth of the Soil

a Growth of the Soil impresses me as among the very greatest novels I have ever read. It is wholly beautiful; it is saturated with wisdom and humor and tenderness.a<br> aH. G. Wells <br> aThe whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun.a<br> aIsaac Bashevis Singer