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The Rise of Jonas Olsen : A Norwegian Immigrant's Saga
The Rise of Jonas Olsen is at once an immigrant novel, business novel, political novel, and a western, offering a rich and panoramic view of Scandinavian immigrant life in the Upper Midwest. Johannes B. Wist combines realism and satire to depict the role Norwegian Americans played in the economic, p...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Translator's Introduction; A Note on the Text and Translation; THE RISE OF JONAS OLSEN; Book I. Scenes from the Life of a Newcomer: Jonas Olsen's First Years in America; Book II. The Home on the Prairie: Jonas Olsen's First Year in the Settlement; Book III. Jonasville; Notes; Bibliography.