Sigrid Undset
1) The wife
Author
Series
Kristin Lavransdatter volume 2
Language
English
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First published in 1921, "The Wife" is the second book in the "Kristin Lavransdatter" trilogy by Sigrid Undset, the Norwegian author and winner of the 1928 Nobel Prize for Literature. Undset's award was primarily based on this series, which depicts the life of Norwegian woman from her childhood to her death in the 14th century. The first book in the series, "The Wreath", follows the young Kristin as she clashes with her family, who are religious and...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Sigrid Undset's Catherine of Siena was critically acclaimed as one of the best biographies of this well-known and amazing fourteenth-century saint. Known for her historical fiction, Undset based this factual work on primary sources about Catherine of Siena, her own experiences living in Italy, and her profound understanding of the human heart.
Author
Series
Kristin Lavransdatter volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1987, c1923
Language
English
Author
Series
Olav Audunsson volume 1
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Olav settles in at his ancestral estate and soon brings Ingunn home as his wife. Both hope to put their troubles behind them, but the crimes and shameful secrets of the past have a long reach and tenacious hold. The consequences of sin, suspicion, and familial obligations may prove a greater threat to the pair's happiness than even their long years of separation"--
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A young Norwegian family enjoys the simplicity and excitement of a Norwegian Christmas, the Seventeenth of May, summer in the idyllic mountains, and the chaotic adventures of two energetic boys before the Nazi occupation.
Author
Series
Olav Audunsson volume 1
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The initial volume in the Nobel Prize-winning author's tumultuous, epic story of medieval Norway--the first new English translation in nearly a century. As a child, Olav Audunssøn is given by his dying father to an old friend, Steinfinn Toressøn, who rashly promises to raise the boy as his foster son and eventually marry him to his own daughter, Ingunn. The two children, very different in temperament, become both brother and sister and betrothed....