Vilhelm Moberg
Vilhelm Moberg (1898-1972) was one of Sweden's greatest writers of the twentieth century and is well known for his remarkable "The Emigrants" (1949), a four-volume epic of Swedish immigration to America.
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Vilhelm Moberg (1898-1972) was one of Sweden's greatest writers of the twentieth century and is well known for his remarkable "The Emigrants" (1949), a four-volume epic of Swedish immigration to America.
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Birth date: August 20, 1898
Died: August 08, 1973
Vilhelm Moberg's Books
bookshelves: re-read, published-1952, translation, summer-2011, sweden, north-americas, families Read from January 01, 2002 to June 22, 2011 ** spoiler alert ** Re-read comes in the film medium: Nybyggarna (1972)Max von Sydow ... Karl-Oskar Liv Ullmann ... Kristina Oh! those pre GR days wher...
Moberg was a Swedish border guard during wwii this was written in 1940 and banned in Nazi patrolled Norway and Denmark.This historical fiction is but a thinly disguised contempt of the Swedish wartime government - Moberg saw them as cowards.Face-value Storyline - In Queen Christina's time she let es...
Hard scrabble life and some truly shocking moments. Very sad at the end.
Hard scrabble life and some truly shocking moments
Re-read comes in the film medium: Nybyggarna (1972)Max von Sydow ... Karl-Oskar Liv Ullmann ... Kristina Eddie Axberg ... Robert Nilsson Pierre Lindstedt ... Arvid Allan Edwall ... Danjel Monica Zetterlund ... Ulrika Hans Alfredson ... Jonas Petter Agneta Pryt...