Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie

xxii, 464 pp. Translated from the original Norwegian, with an introduction by Lincoln Colcord. Inspiration for the opera of the same name, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1951. 'Giants in the Earth is a great and beautiful book that suggests the wealth of human potential brought to America year after year by the peasant immigrants who passed through Ellis Island and scattered the length and breadth of the land. Written in Norwegian. and stemming from a rich old-world literary tradition, it is at the same time deeply and vitally American.' - Vernon Louis Parrington. "Ole Edvart Rølvaag (Rølvåg in modern Norwegian, Rolvaag in English-speaking orthography) (April 22, 1876 - November 5, 1931) was an American novelist and professor. He became well known for his writings on the Norwegian American immigrant experience. Rolvaag is most frequently associated with Giants in the Earth, his award winning, epic novel of Norwegian immigrant homesteaders in Dakota Territory."