Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset. Translated by Charles Archer Scott & J. S. Scott (LP144)

Published 1933: Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original green cloth with black titles on the spine. 945 clean and bright pages, slight separation showing on inner hinge, text block or covers not affected. Boards are slightly rubbed and faded with time and bumped on the corners consistent with age but remain firm and intact. (LP144)

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Contents:
The Garland
The Mistress of Husaby
The Cross

In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and religious undercurrents of the period.

With its captivating heroine and emotional potency, Kristin Lavransdatter is the masterwork of Norways most beloved authorone of the twentieth centurys most prodigious and engaged literary mindsand, in Nunnallys exquisite translation, a story that continues to enthrall.

Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old. In 1924, she converted to Catholicism and became a lay Dominican. She fled Norway in 1940 because of her opposition to Nazi Germany and the German occupation, but returned after the end of World War II in 1945.

Sigrid Undset received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. Most of the praise was for her medieval novels, including the trilogy about Kristin Lavransdatter. This trilogy has been translated into more than 80 languages and is among the world’s most read novels.

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