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Catherine of Siena (1951)
by Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset's Catherine of Siena is critically acclaimed as one of the best biographies of this famous fourteenth-century saint. Known for her historical fiction, which won her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1928, Undset based this factual work on primary sources, her experiences living in... (learn more about this book)
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Happy Times in Norway (1942)
by Sigrid Undset
This book was actually originally written in 1942 in America in the English language, and only later on, in 1947, translated into the author's native language, Norwegian. Happy Times in Norway is Sigrid Undset's memoirs of her children's early lives in their homeland, the Gudbrandsdal region of... (learn more about this book)
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The Winding Road: Book 2The Burning Bush (1930)
by Sigrid Undset
The Wild Orchid brought us to August 1914 and the first quarrel between Paul Selmer and his young wife Björg. The period of the Great War is passed over rapidly, but we are made to realize its moral and economic effects on a neutral nation. As the reader will have anticipated, Paul becomes a... (learn more about this book)
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The Master of Hestviken: Book 3In the Wilderness (1927)
by Sigrid Undset
It is Norway in the thirteenth century, a land rent by unremitting warfare and feebly lit by Christianity. Olav Audunsson was once an outlaw; now he is a man of wealth and stature. But he is haunted by the memory of crimes for which there is no easy atonement and by losses that may never be... (learn more about this book)
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The Master of Hestviken: Book 4The Son Avenger: Volume IV of The Master of Hestviken (1927)
by Sigrid Undset
In the concluding volume of The Master of Hestviken epic, Sigrid Undset combines an astonishing fidelity to the landscape, culture, and mores of thirteenth-century Norway with a timeless insight into the labyrinths of passion and bitterness, guilt and faith. As a young man Olav Audunsson... (learn more about this book)
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The Master of Hestviken: Book 1The Axe (1925)
by Sigrid Undset
Set in thirteenth-century Norway, a land racked by political turmoil and bloody family vendettas, The Axe is the first volume in Sigrid Undset's epic tetralogy, The Master of Hestviken. In it we meet Olav Audunsson and Ingunn Steinfinnsdatter, who were betrothed as children and raised as brother... (learn more about this book)
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The Master of Hestviken: Book 2The Snake Pit: The Master of Hestviken, Vol. 2 (1925)
by Sigrid Undset
In the second novel of her powerful saga The Master of Hestikven, Sigrid Undset turns the magnificent landscape of thirteenth-century Norway into the backdrop for a brilliantly insightful and often unsparing portrait of a marraige.
Olav Audunsson and Ingunn Steinfinnsdatter became lovers... (learn more about this book)
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Kristin Lavransdatter: Book 3The Cross (1922)
by Sigrid Undset
The definitive new translation of the masterwork of Scandinavia's most beloved author is now complete. Kristin Lavransdatter is a story of love, loyalty, and betrayal, set against a richly detailed historical backdrop of fourteenth-century Norway. The Cross (1922) finds Kristin returning... (learn more about this book)
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Kristin Lavransdatter: Book 2The Wife (1921)
by Sigrid Undset
In Kristin Lavransdatter (1920-1922), Sigrid Undset interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. The trilogy, however, is more than a journey into the... (learn more about this book)
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