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When I Was a Child
With deadpan humor and startling detail, the author of the Emigrants series brings to life a childhood much like his own.
The Emigrants
Book One introduces Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their 3 young children, and 11 others who make up a resolute party of Swedes fleeing the poverty, religious persecution, and …
A History of the Swedish People
Last Letter Home
Considered one of Swedens greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish …
Unto A Good Land
Considered one of Swedens greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish …
Brides of Midsummer
For centuries, people have celebrated every Midsummers Eve at an ancient spring near a small Swedish village. On that special night, when unmarried men and women dance and some …
A History of the Swedish People
In the second volume of his vivid history of the Swedes, Vilhelm Moberg brings his focus on the common people to bear on a period that included two dramatic revolts: the national …
Unto a Good Land
Book Two opens in the summer of 1850 as the emigrants disembark in New York City. Their journey to a new home in Minnesota Territory takes them by riverboat, steam wagon, Great …
When I Was a Child
At the beginning of the twentieth century, in the poverty-stricken Swedish region of Smaland, young Valter, the son of a soldier, explores the world around him and watches his …
A History of the Swedish People
Beginning in prehistoric times and culminating with the Dacke rebellion of 1542, renowned novelist Vilhelm Moberg's two-volume popular history of the Swedish people approaches its …