Peder Victorious: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Peder Victorious, credited to O. E. Rølvaag, 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 Peder Victorious by O. E. Rølvaag. (Translated by Nora Solum.) Read in English by Tom Shoesmith. Peder Victorious is the sequel to Giants in the Earth and follows the Norwegian immigrant community in the Dakota Territory. The novel centers on Peder, the son of Per Hansa and Beret Holm, following the loss of Per in a snowstorm twenty years earlier. The book continues the exploration of the frontier immigrant experience, as the first generation of settlers feels their home culture slipping away and the new generation, born in America, struggles to find their blended identities. This is a story of a boy’s growth into adulthood, and a mother’s gradual acceptance of the changes inevitably wrought by time and circumstance. - Summary by Tom Shoesmith

Recording facts

• Recording title: Peder Victorious
• Author credits: O. E. Rølvaag
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 11:18:17

Catalogue topics

• immigrants
• pioneers
• coming of age
• loneliness
• homesickness
• family life
• dakota territory
• religious experience

Track guide

1. 01 - Ch 1.1 The Song of Life’s Dismay, I - III — 39:34
2. 02 - Ch 1.2 The Song of Life’s Dismay, IV - V — 38:58
3. 03 - Ch 1.3 The Song of Life’s Dismay, VI - VIII — 44:58
4. 04 - Ch 1.4 The Song of Life’s Dismay, IX - XI — 37:54
5. 05 - Ch 2.1 The Mill of the Gods, I - III — 40:14
6. 06 - Ch 2.2 The Mill of the Gods, IV - VII — 1:00:00
7. 07 - Ch 2.3 The Mill of the Gods, VIII - X — 50:17
8. 08 - Ch 2.4 The Mill of the Gods, XI - XII — 25:49
9. 09 - Ch 3.1 The Eyes That Did Not See, I - III — 49:19
10. 10 - Ch 3.2 The Eyes That Did Not See, IV - VI — 40:05
11. 11 - Ch 3.3 The Eyes That Did Not See, VII — 33:58
12. 12 - Ch 3.4 The Eyes That Did Not See, VIII - X — 51:57
13. 13 - Ch 4.1 The Song of the Shulamite, I - III — 50:41
14. 14 - Ch 4.2 The Song of the Shulamite, IV - VI — 44:56
15. 15 - Ch 4.3 The Song of the Shulamite, VII - IX — 36:17
16. 16 - Ch 4.4 The Song of the Shulamite, X - XII — 33:20

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