Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by SIGRID UNDSET
- New
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0143039164
- ISBN 13
- 9780143039167
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Penguin Classics, September 2005. Paper Back. New. A masterpiece of historical fiction By the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist. Set in fourteenth-century Norway, the story traces the life of the daughter of a good-hearted landowner and farmer, centering on her love for and marriage to a well-born but disgraced nobleman. The wealth of historical detail is seductive in its authenticity, the whole atmosphere of medieval Catholic piety, with its deeply sacramental experience of nature, time, and culture and lingering overtones of pagan folk wisdom and superstition is vividly pervasive, creating a rich, multilayered universe with some of the most unforgettable and full-blooded characters in literature. Much is here that is incommunicable in poignance and beauty, creating a reading experience of rare transcendence. We daresay that any who allow themselves to be drawn into it will never be the same again.
Synopsis
Kristin Lavransdatter is the common name for a trilogy of historical novels written by Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset. The individual novels are Kransen (The Wreath), first published in 1920, Husfrue (Wife), published in 1921, and Korset (The Cross), published in 1922. Kransen and Husfrue have also been published in English translation under the titles The Bridal Wreath and The Mistress of Husaby.
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- Bookseller
- Eighth Day Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1913
- Title
- Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- Author
- SIGRID UNDSET
- Format/Binding
- Paper Back
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 15
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0143039164
- ISBN 13
- 9780143039167
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- September 2005
- Pages
- 1168
- Keywords
- Norway, Norwegian literature, faith and fiction
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