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- Last Letter Home
- Book
- 1995
- Published by: Minnesota Historical Society Press
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Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels. Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections, including the Minnesota Historical Society, enabled him to incorporate many details of pioneer life. First published between 1949 and 1959 in Swedish, these four books were considered a single work by Moberg, who intended that they be read as documentary novels. These new editions contain introductions written by Roger McKnight, Gustavus Adolphus College, and restore Moberg's bibliography not included in earlier English editions.Book 4 portrays the Nilsson family during the turmoil of living through the era of the Civil War and Dakota Conflict and their prospering in the midst of Minnesota's growing Swedish community of the 1860s-90s."It's important to have Moberg's Emigrant Novels available for another generation of readers.”—Bruce Karstadt, American Swedish Institute
Table of Contents
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- Title page, copyright page
- pp. i-iv
- Introduction to the Emigrant Novels
- pp. ix-xx
- Introduction to The Last Letter Home
- pp. xxi-xxv
- Bibliography for the Emigrant Novels
- pp. xxvii-xxviii
- PREFACE: The Country that Changed Them
- pp. xxxi-xxxii
- PART ONE
- 1 Old Abe Calls
- pp. 3-12
- 4 THE SETTLERS' HOLY DAYS
- pp. 35-46
- 5 THE TOMAHAWKS ARE BEING SHARPENED
- pp. 47-55
- 6 KRISTINA DESERTS HER MILKING STOOL
- pp. 56-65
- 7 HAS GOD INFLICTED THIS UPON US?
- pp. 66-75
- PART TWO: The Astrakhan Apples Are Ripe
- 9 THE RIVER OR THE FONT?
- pp. 79-90
- 10 THE ASTRAKHAN APPLE TREE BLOOMS
- pp. 91-99
- 11 KRISTINA IS NOT AFRAID
- pp. 100-105
- 12 AND A NEW CIVIL WAR BROKE OUT
- pp. 106-119
- 13 EVERY WHITE MAN MUST DIE!
- pp. 120-130
- 14 WHILE KARL OSKAR KEPT NIGHT WATCH
- pp. 131-140
- 15 THE ASTRAKHAN APPLES ARE RIPE
- pp. 141-146
- 16 THE THIRD COFFIN
- pp. 147-150
- 17 SONG UNDER THIRTY-EIGHT GALLOWS
- pp. 151-153
- 18 ONE MAN DID NOT WISH TO SUBMIT
- pp. 154-162
- 19 THE LETTER TO SWEDEN
- pp. 163-164
- PART THREE
- 20 THE FIRST CHILD TO LEAVE THE HOUSE
- pp. 167-182
- 21 THE BRIDAL CROWN WITH PRECIOUS STONES
- pp. 183-192
- 22 THE FARMER AND THE OAK
- pp. 193-202
- 23 THE LETTER TO SWEDEN
- pp. 202-203
- EPILOGUE
- I. THE MAP OF LJUDER
- pp. 207-228
- II. THE LAST LETTER HOME
- pp. 229-230
Additional Information
ISBN
9780873517164
Related ISBN(s)
9780873513227
MARC Record
OCLC
794700992
Pages
230
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No