The Last Letter Home

The Last Letter Home (Swedish: Sista brevet till Sverige) is a novel by Vilhelm Moberg from 1959. It is the fourth and final part of The Emigrants series, the shortest book of the four, with a faster pace.

The Last Letter Home
First english edition
AuthorVilhelm Moberg
Original title'Sista brevet till Sverige'
TranslatorGustaf Lannestock
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish
SeriesThe Emigrants
GenreHistorical novel
PublisherBonniers (Swedish edition)
Publication date
1959
Published in English
1961
Media typePrint
Pages311 pp (Swedish edition)
ISBN0-87351-322-3
OCLC32346926
839.73/72 20
LC ClassPT9875.M5 S513 1995
Preceded byThe Settlers 
Followed byNone 

Plot

This novel tells about Karl-Oskar and Kristina in their late life and eventual death. The novel has a slightly more reflective perspective than the other three, and it follows events such as The American Civil War and the Sioux Outbreak of 1862 through the perspective of the settlers.

Film, television or theatrical adaptions

  • The New Land, a 1972 sequel to the first film, based on the last two novels.


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gollark: It would be more than "oh no, I have slightly worse food choices".
gollark: Full anarchoprimitivism, as komrad suggested, would *not* have that, and pre-industrial-revolution you have way worse productive capacity (so less of those things/worse things), and no access to modern medicine.
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