A settler carves a farm and a life out of the Norwegian wilderness across the generations. Hamsun's epic of the soil, which won the Nobel Prize.
Books mentioned in Growth of the Soil (3)
Sex and Character by Otto Weininger: “Otto Weininger, the author of _Sex and Character_, said of _Pan_ that it was "perhaps the most beautiful novel ever written."”
The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade: “The book is a harmless picaresque, a _geste_ of innocent rogue-errantry; its place is with _Lavengro_ and _The Cloister and the Hearth_, in that ancient, endless order of tales which link up age with age and land with land in the unaltering, unfrontiered fellowship of the road that kept the spirit…”
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: “There is a touch of Sterne about the book; not the exaggerated super-Sterne of Tristram Shandy, with eighteenth-century-futurist blanks and marbled pages, but the fluent, casual, follow-your-fancy Sterne of the _Sentimental Journey_.”