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Giants in the Earth (Norwegian: I de dage) is a novel by Norwegian-American author Ole Edvart Rølvaag. First published in Norwegian in two volumes in 1924 and 1925, it was published in English in 1927, translated by Rølvaag and author Lincoln Colcord (1883–1947). [1] [2] [3]
Rølvaag's authorship and scholarship focused on the pioneer experience on the Dakota plains in the 1870s. His most famous book was Giants in the Earth, part of a trilogy. It is the story of a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America. It was based partly upon Rolvaag's ...
Giants in the Earth may refer to: Giants in the Earth (novel) , a 1924/1925 novel by Ole Edvart Rølvaag Giants in the Earth (opera) , a 1951 adaptation of the novel, by Douglas Moore
Giants in the Earth is a 1951 Pulitzer Prize-winning opera in three acts and four scenes by composer Douglas Moore.The work uses an English libretto by Arnold Sundgaard (1909–2006) after Ole Edvart Rølvaag's 1924-5 novel of the same name.
Giants is an anthology of themed fantasy and science fiction short stories on the subject of giants edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh as the fifth volume in their Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy series. It was first published in paperback by Signet/New American Library in November 1985. The first British ...
The Armour of Light is a historical fiction novel by Welsh author Ken Follett. [1] [2] It is the fifth book in the Kingsbridge Series, and is the sequel to A Column of Fire.The Armour of Light takes place in the years 1792–1824 in Kingsbridge, the same fictional English town in The Pillars of the Earth.
Combining art rock and a sense of the absurd, They Might Be Giants has never fit comfortably into a musical genre. From their start, childhood pals John Flansburgh and John Linnell have done ...
Brobdingnag is a fictional land that is occupied by giants, in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels. The story's main character, Lemuel Gulliver, visits the land after the ship on which he is travelling is blown off course. As a result, he becomes separated from a party exploring the unknown land.