The Mistress of Husaby
by:
Sigrid Undset (author)
The acknowledged masterpiece of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter has never been out of print in this country since its first publication in 1927. Its story of a woman's life in fourteenth-century Norway has kept its hold on generations of readers,...
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The acknowledged masterpiece of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter has never been out of print in this country since its first publication in 1927. Its story of a woman's life in fourteenth-century Norway has kept its hold on generations of readers, and the heroine, Kristin—beautiful, strong-willed, and passionate—stands with the world's great literary figures. Volume 11, The Mistress of Husaby, tells of Kristin's troubled and eventful married life on the great estate of Husaby, to which her husband has taken her.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780394752938 (0394752937)
Publish date: May 12th 1987
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 379
Edition language: English
Series: Kristin Lavransdatter (#2)
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 ...
The evening before Simon's Mass* Baard Peterssön's galleass lay in to the landing-place at Birgsi.*18th OctoberTranslated Charles Archer
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