O.E. Rolvaag

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  • Bibliography:
    4 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1982
  • Latest Book:
    November 1991
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Book List in Order: 4 titles

  • Peder Victorious: A Tale of the Pioneers Twenty Years Later

    Peder Victorious, the sequel to Rolvaag's massive Giants in the Earth, continues the saga of the Norwegian settlers in the Dakotas. Here again, years later, are all the sturdy pioneers of the earlier novel, Rolvaag's "vikings of the prairie" Per Hans...

  • Their Fathers' God

    Susie Doheny, an Irish Catholic, and Peder Holm, a Norwegian Lutheran, fall in love and marry in South Dakota in the 1890s. Soon their marriage is tested by drought, depression, and family bickering. Susie believes they are being tested by their fath...

  • Boat of Longing

    From the rocky, mist-enshrouded shores of Norway to the bustling streets of Minneapolis, O. E. Rølvaag lyrically chronicles the experiences of Nils Vaag, a young Norwegian immigrant. Abandoning the life of a fisherman in Nordland, a region poor but ...

  • Giants in the Earth

    First published in English in 1927, “Giants in the Earth” is the Norwegian novel by Norwegian-American author Ole Edvart Rolvaag which relates the struggles of a group of Norwegian immigrants to the Great Plains of America in the 1870s. A Norwegi...



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O.E. Rolvaag has published 4 books.

O.E. Rolvaag does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Giants in the Earth, was published in November 1991.

The first book by O.E. Rolvaag, Peder Victorious: A Tale of the Pioneers Twenty Years Later, was published in March 1982.

No. O.E. Rolvaag does not write books in series.
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