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...EARTH IS OURS-Whelm Moberg -Simon & Schuster...
Last week Swedish Novelist Vilhelm Moberg published a novel that was written with great earnestness, a restrained love of the Swedish countryside, an earthy knowledge of peasant types. In sheer acreage (687 pages) The Earth Is Ours outbulked Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil (406 pages). But Growth of the Soil told an ageless legend of a land-loving peasant's conquest of and by the soil. The Earth Is Ours tells the story of a book-loving peasant's efforts to reshape his native countryside along the lines of the more abundant life...
...Young People's Society to keep peasant boys on the farm through cooperatives and communal culture. World War II was on the way before the Young People's Society got its community clubhouse started, but the book ends with them digging away - a symbol of what Author Moberg thinks the post war world should look like...
MEMORY OF YOUTH-Vilhelm Moberg -Simon & Schuster ($2.50). A sturdier Swedish Little Man, What Now? about a successful Stockholm magazine editor, turned sour on city life, who muses for 322 of the novel's 405 pages on his frustrated but retrospectively happy peasant youth...