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This book was different...more...]]> 1383732 83983 342049 0394717813 9780394717814 72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173895998m/342049.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173895998s/342049.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/342049.Growth_of_the_Soil 4.26 589 1917 5 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1970 Wed May 23 07:07:21 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 19:56:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 42492102 190820 967120 0285648780 9780285648784 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179874394m/967120.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179874394s/967120.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/967120.Growth_of_the_Soil 3.67 3 Growth of the Soil was 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 & raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the Norwegian back country, Knut Hamsun evokes the elemental bond between humans & the land. 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And it is certainly big and literary and, well, a novel. But that's about all I can really say...more...]]> 66513953 2348938 342049 0394717813 9780394717814 72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173895998m/342049.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173895998s/342049.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/342049.Growth_of_the_Soil 4.26 589 1917 4 0 false Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 00:21:18 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 20:50:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 55118318 1739658 1428604 0143105108 9780143105107 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183510447m/1428604.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183510447s/1428604.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1428604.Growth_of_the_Soil 3.88 49 The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature—the first new English translation since the novel's original publication ninety years ago

When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was 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.]]> 1917 2 0 false Wed May 06 04:11:21 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 04:23:29 -0700 2009 60834138 2443190 342049 0394717813 9780394717814 72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173895998m/342049.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173895998s/342049.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/342049.Growth_of_the_Soil 4.26 589 1917 4 0 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 15:04:05 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 11:46:45 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 45479485 330255 342049 0394717813 9780394717814 72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173895998m/342049.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173895998s/342049.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/342049.Growth_of_the_Soil 4.26 589 1917 5 0 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Thu Feb 05 12:29:40 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 12:35:16 -0800 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=342049