The emigrants: #1

Introduction to the Emigrant novels

Introduction to the Emigrants

Bibliography for the Emigrant novels

Suggested readings in English

By way of introduction

Peasants

Country which they left

Part 1: Gates On The Road To America

1: King in his stone kingdom

2: Farmhand who drowned in the mill brook

3: What the bedbugs in a stable room must listen to

4: Karl Oskar and Kristina

5: Ake returns from the insane asylum

6: Suitable chastisment

7: About a wheat field and a bowl of barley porridge

8: With God's help and through the assistance of the authorities

9: America chest

10: Peasant bows for the last time

11: One emigrant pays no fare

12: All gates open on the road to America

Part 2: Peasants At Sea

13: Charlotta of Karlshamn

14: Forty paces long and eight paces wide

15: Cargo of dreams

16: Happenings on board the ship

17: Ship was covered with waves

18: Bushel of earth from Sweden

19: At home and away

20: Stories on the after deck

21: It was called ship-sickness

22: Story told at the main hatch

23: Peasants at sea

24: Long night

25: Another three shovelfuls of earth from Sweden

26: Sailing toward midsummer.