Sigrid Undset
Birth date: May 20, 1882
Died: June 10, 1949
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As an omnibus, the length of this classic trilogy is daunting; it was on my to-read list for years before I decided to read just the first, 300-page book. Of course that was excellent and I soon read the rest of the trilogy. While I understand the omnibus packaging – the later books assume knowledge...
The final volume of the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy is perhaps the best of the three. Judging by the titles and cover images, I had guessed that Kristin would spend this book as a widowed nun and that the book would be mostly about her grieving and repenting her sins. Fortunately, that’s a long wa...
I expected to like this volume even more than the previous one, because in general I prefer content I’ve seen less often, and the story of a woman making her way as a wife and mother is much less common in my reading than the story of her falling in love and trying to avoid arranged marriage. But I ...
This trilogy has been on my to-read list for years, but motivating myself to read a 1100-page classic novel isn’t easy. Finally I decided to simply read the first book, which is just under 300 pages long. It worked, and got me interested enough that I’m now halfway through the second. Turns out this...
Romanzo lunghissimo che a volte si dilunga e tende ad essere un po' dispersivo a scapito della scorrevolezza, effettivamente è una lettura un po' faticosa. Durante la lettura, la storia sembra un po' spenta, una successione di eventi tutti vissuti e filtrati dalla intensa cristianità dei protagoni...
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