![]() “There were many closed gates on the road to America. … Perhaps the greatest virtue of the novel, is Moberg’s warm, human approach to and depth of understanding of the emigrants.” His emigrants should strike any observer who has known older immigrants in the Middle West and elsewhere as authentic. … Moberg does not distort the factual background of conditions in Smaland in the 1840’s. ![]() It presents them as human beings who had been handicapped by what Ibsen called the real enemies of society – ignorance, poverty, and the ugly conditions of life. “The Emigrants” tells in a realistic and fascinating fashion the story of the emigration of farm people from Smaland a hundred years ago.
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