Growth of the Soil: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Growth of the Soil, credited to Knut Hamsun, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Growth of the Soil, by Knut Hamsun. Read by Greg W.. Growth of the Soil (Markens Grøde) is the novel by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. The essential elements of this novel are expressed in the words of the English translator W.W. Worster in his footnote in December 1920: 'It is the life story of a man in the wilds, the genesis and gradual development of a homestead, the unit of humanity, in the unfilled, uncleared tracts that still remain in the Norwegian Highlands. It is an epic of earth; the history of a microcosm. Its dominant note is one of patient strength and simplicity; the mainstay of its working is the tacit, stern, yet loving alliance between Nature and the Man who faces her himself, trusting to himself and her for the physical means of life, and the spiritual contentment with life which she must grant if he be worthy. . .The story is epic in its magnitude, in its calm, steady progress and unhurrying rhythm, in its vast and intimate humanity. The author looks upon his characters with a great, all-tolerant sympathy, aloof yet kindly, as a god.' (Introduction by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Growth of the Soil
• Author credits: Knut Hamsun
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 14:38:39

Catalogue topics

• Norwegian
• Nobel Prize
• Fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 01 - Book One, Chapter I — 19:34
2. 02 - Book One, Chapter II — 17:37
3. 03 - Book One, Chapter III — 21:30
4. 04 - Book One, Chapter IV — 25:55
5. 05 - Book One, Chapter V — 19:49
6. 06 - Book One, Chapter VI — 29:25
7. 07 - Book One, Chapter VII — 25:02
8. 08 - Book One, Chapter VIII — 22:45
9. 09 - Book One, Chapter IX — 24:02
10. 10 - Book One, Chapter X — 22:45
11. 11 - Book One, Chapter XI — 18:55
12. 12 - Book One, Chapter XII — 24:49
13. 13 - Book One, Chapter XIII — 22:57
14. 14 - Book One, Chapter XIV — 32:00
15. 15 - Book One, Chapter XV — 28:01
16. 16 - Book One, Chapter XVI — 31:01
17. 17 - Book One, Chapter XVII — 29:17
18. 18 - Book One, Chapter XVIII — 30:42
19. 19 - Book One, Chapter XIX — 29:44
20. 20 - Book Two, Chapter I — 29:43
21. 21 - Book Two, Chapter II — 31:53
22. 22 - Book Two, Chapter III — 36:16
23. 23 - Book Two, Chapter IV — 39:15
24. 24 - Book Two, Chapter V — 33:04

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