TY - BOOK AU - Hamsun,Knut AU - Worster,W.J.Alexander TI - Growth of the Soil AV - PT PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Norway -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_the_Soil; Release date is 2004-02-01; Produced by Kevin Handy, Dave Maddock, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Growth of the Soil" by Knut Hamsun is a novel published in 1917 that won him the Nobel Prize in Literature. It follows Isak, a Norwegian man who settles on remote land and builds a farm from nothing. As his family grows and prospers through hard work, they face challenges from both nature and encroaching modernity. The story explores themes of primitive agrarian life, the bond between humans and land, and the tensions that arise when traditional rural existence confronts progress and civilization. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10984 ER -