Giants in the Earth Author:O. E. Rolvaag Beret, the wife of Per Hansa, brooding in her sod hut in Dakota, afraid of life and of her own thoughts, and turning for comfort to a dark religion, is a type of thousands of frontier women who - as the historian Ridpath said of his parents - "toiled and suffered and died that their children might inherit the promise." — Giants In The Earth is a ... more »great and beautiful book that suggests the wealth of human potentialities brought to America year after year by the peasant immigrants who passed through Ellis Island and scattered the length and breadth of the land. Translated from the Norwegian, and stemming from a rich old-world literary tradition, it is at the same time deeply and vitally American.« less