Sigrid Undset
1) The Wreath
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Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
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“[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante.” —Slate
A Penguin Classic
Kristin Lavransdatter 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 past. Undset's own life—her familiarity
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English
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The cycle follows the life of Kristin Lavransdatter, a fictitious Norwegian woman living in the 14th century. Kristin grows up in Sil in Gudbrandsdalen, the daughter of a well-respected and affluent farmer. She experiences a number of conflicts in her relationships with her parents, and her husband Erlend, in medieval Norway. She finds comfort and conciliation in her Catholic faith.
3) The axe
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English
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Tragic story of young lovers captures the spirit of Norwegian life in 13th century Norway.
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Publisher
Sheed and Ward
Pub. Date
1954.
Language
English
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.
6) The cross
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1927.
Language
English
Description
First published in English in 1927, "The Cross" is the final book in the "Kristin Lavransdatter" trilogy, which depicts the life of a 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 prosperous farmers, while she falls in love with, and eventually marries, a man that her parents do not approve of. In the second...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1936.
Language
English
Description
Set in Norway and Iceland at the beginning of the eleventh century, Gunnar's Daughter is the story of the beautiful, spoiled Vigdis Gunnarsdatter, who is raped by the man she had wanted to love. A woman of courage and intelligence, Vigdis is toughened by adversity.
12) The burning bush
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Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1932.
Language
English
Description
Set in the early 1900s, Paul Selmer is a hero who struggles as a convert to Catholicism, a minority sect in Norway. He struggles in his unhappy marriage to love his difficult wife and accept his faults as a husband. He struggles to maintain friendships and family ties in a time of rapidly crumbling morals and the obvious devastation caused by divorce and infidelity. He struggles as a parent to raise his children in a faith he is also learning.--Publisher's...
20) Ida Elisabeth
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1933.
Language
English
Description
When her unfaithful husband returns, ill and poor, a Norwegian wife sacrifices her chance of happiness with another man for the sake of the father of her children and the stronger ties of marriage.