About the author: Vilhelm Moberg, author of more than thirty novels, histories, and plays, is one of Sweden’s greatest writers of the twentieth century. Moberg’s most enduring works are his four Emigrant Novels, which portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for nineteenth-century Swedish pioneers in America.

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