Author | Vilhelm Moberg |
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Original title | Utvandrarna |
Translator | Gustaf Lannestock |
Language | Swedish |
Series | The Emigrants |
Genre | Historical novel |
Publisher | Bonniers (Swedish edition) |
Publication date | 1949 |
Publication place | Sweden |
Published in English | 1951 |
Media type | |
Pages | 444 (Swedish edition) |
ISBN | 0-87351-319-3 |
OCLC | 32346955 |
839.73/72 20 | |
LC Class | PT9875.M5 U713 1995 |
Preceded by | None |
Followed by | Unto a Good Land |
The Emigrants (Swedish: Utvandrarna, 1949) is a novel by Vilhelm Moberg. It is the first of his four-novel series entitled The Emigrants. In these he explores the causes and process of the major Swedish emigration to the United States beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, and their settling in such frontier areas as the Minnesota Territory.