Word: landsmaal
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...affairs from times when Progenitor Per Anders fights hand to hand with the Devil, to his descendants' struggles with more modern devilish banks and herring-oil factories. Highly prized by his fellow Norwegians (many of whom read him in English translation rather than in his difficult Landsmaal dialect) he is reported to have missed a Nobel Prize by one vote. The circulation of his Juviking books in the U. S. has left a large market untapped: The Trough of the Wave sold 1,063, The Blind Man 556, The Big Wedding 372. Not discouraged, Publisher Knopf will wind...
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