Dec 18, 2009

Giants in the Earth | Critical Overview

Early reviews of Giants in the Earth were highly favorable. Writing in the Chicago Daily News, Carl Sandburg called the story "so terrible and panoramic, piling up its facts with incessantly subtle intimations, that it belongs among the books to be kept and cherished." Walter Vogdes wrote in The Nation that "We may wish desperately that Rolvaag could have ended his tale in triumph and satisfaction.... But no, Rolvaag had to stand close to the facts and the truth." In his introduction to the novel, Lincoln Colcord, Rolvaag's co-translator, called the work unique for...