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Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (539 download)
Download or read book The Master of Hestviken written by Sigrid Undset and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Axe written by Sigrid Undset and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragic story of young lovers captures the spirit of Norwegian life in 13th century Norway.
Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679755527
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book The Son Avenger written by Sigrid Undset and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995-06-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerfully written and filled with magnificent vignettes of the daily life of a medieval estate, The Son Avenger suggests a Greek tragedy whose vision of fate coexists with a Christian sense of suffering and forgiveness. And in the somber, twilight figure of Olav the Bad, Undset has created an antihero as moving as Oedipus or King Lear.
Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030777306X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Axe written by Sigrid Undset and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 13th-century Norway, The Axe is the first volume in 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 and sister. In the heedlessness of youth, they become lovers, unaware that their ardor will forge the first link in a chain of murder, exile, and disgrace. Undset's novel is also a meticulous re-creation of a world split between pagan codes of retribution and the rigors of Christian piety--a world where law is a fragile new invention and manslaughter is so common that it's punishable by a fine."Undset reproduces medieval Norway in all the rich pageantry of color and form...she can transport us eight centuries and several thousand miles more effectively than most writers can take us into the house next door."--The Nation
Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book In the Wilderness written by Sigrid Undset and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995-06-24 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of his wife, Olav Audunsson leaves on a journey to Oslo where a fierce and bloody struggle may not be enough to redeem him from past violations.
Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452965773
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Olav Audunssøn written by Sigrid Undset and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s epic of medieval Norway, finely capturing Undset’s fluid, natural style in a new English translation, the first in nearly a century As Norway moves into the fourteenth century, the kingdom continues to be racked by political turmoil and bloody family vendettas that serve as the backdrop for Sigrid Undset’s masterful story about Olav Audunssøn and Ingunn Steinfinnsdatter. Betrothed as children and raised as foster siblings, their unbridled love for each other sets in motion a series of dire events—with a legacy of betrayal, murder, and disgrace that will echo for generations. In Providence, the second of Olav Audunssøn’s four volumes, Olav settles in at his ancestral estate of Hestviken and soon brings Ingunn home as his wife. Both hope to put their troubles behind them as they start a new life together, but the crimes and shameful secrets of the past have a long reach and a tenacious hold. The consequences of sin, suspicion, and familial obligations may prove a greater threat to the pair’s happiness than even their long years of separation. Set in a time when royalty and religion vie for power, and bloodlines and loyalties are effectively law, Providence summons a powerful picture of Northern life in the medieval era, as the Swedish Academy noted in awarding Undset the Nobel Prize. Conveying both the intimate drama of Olav and Ingunn’s marriage and the epic sweep of their story, it is at once a moving and vivid recreation of a vanished world tainted by bloodshed and haunted by sin and retribution. As with her classic Kristin Lavransdatter, Sigrid Undset immersed herself in legal, religious, and historical writings to create in Olav Audunssøn an astoundingly authentic and compelling portrait of Norwegian life in the Middle Ages. And as in her translation of Kristin Lavransdatter, Tiina Nunnally does full justice to Undset’s fluid prose. Undset’s writing style is by turns straightforward and delicately lyrical, conveying the natural world, the complex culture, and the fraught emotional territory against which Olav’s story inexorably unfolds.
Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679755543
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book The Snake Pit written by Sigrid Undset and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1994-11-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in medieval Norway, The Snake Pit follows Olav and Ingunn, who, though raised as brother sister, have become lovers in a world caught between the fading sphere of pagan worship and vendettas and the expansion of Christianity.
Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145296498X
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Olav Audunssøn written by Sigrid Undset and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The initial volume in the Nobel Prize–winning author’s tumultuous, epic story of medieval Norway—the first new English translation in nearly a century As a child, Olav Audunssøn is given by his dying father to an old friend, Steinfinn Toressøn, who rashly promises to raise the boy as his foster son and eventually marry him to his own daughter, Ingunn. The two children, very different in temperament, become both brother and sister and betrothed. In the turbulent thirteenth-century Norway of Sigrid Undset’s epic masterpiece, bloodlines and loyalties often supersede law, and the crown and the church vie for power and wealth. Against this background and the complicated relationship between Olav and Ingunn, a series of fateful decisions leads to murder, betrayal, exile, and disgrace. In Vows, the first book in the powerful Olav Audunssøn tetralogy, Undset presents a richly imagined world split between pagan codes of retribution and the constraints of Christian piety—all of which threaten to destroy the lives of two young people torn between desires of the heart and the dictates of family and fortune. As she did when writing her earlier and bestselling epic Kristin Lavransdatter, Sigrid Undset immersed herself in the legal, religious, and historical documents of medieval Norway to create in Olav Audunssøn remarkably authentic and compelling portraits of Norwegian life in the Middle Ages. In this new English edition, renowned Scandinavian translator Tiina Nunnally again captures Undset’s fluid prose, conveying in an engaging lyrical style the natural world, complex culture, and fraught emotional territory of Olav and Ingunn’s dramatic story.
Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Son Avenger written by Sigrid Undset and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN 13 : 1774644487
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Catherine of Siena written by Sigrid Undset and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2021-11-11T12:01:00Z with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, which won her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1928, 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.
Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780141180205
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Gunnar's Daughter written by Sigrid Undset and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first historical novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Kristin Lavransdatter A Penguin Classic More than a decade before writing Kristin Lavransdatter, the trilogy about fourteenth-century Norway that won her the Nobel Prize, Sigrid Undset published Gunnar’s Daughter, a brief, swiftly moving tale about a more violent period of her country’s history, the Saga Age. 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. Alone she raises the child conceived in violence, repeatedly defending her autonomy in a world governed by men. Alone she rebuilds her life and restores her family's honor—until an unremitting social code propels her to take the action that again destroys her happiness. First published in 1909, Gunnar's Daughter was in part a response to the rise of nationalism and Norway's search for a national identity in its Viking past. But unlike most of the Viking-inspired art of its period, Gunnar's Daughter is not a historical romance. It is a skillful conversation between two historical moments about questions as troublesome in Undset's own time—and in ours—as they were in the Saga Age: rape and revenge, civil and domestic violence, troubled marriages, and children made victims of their parents' problems.
Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (822 download)
Download or read book The Snake Pit written by Sigrid Undset and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher : Plume Books
ISBN 13 : 9780452251793
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (517 download)
Download or read book The Master of Hestviken written by Sigrid Undset and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681492482
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Ida Elisabeth written by Sigrid Undset and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an effort to redeem her reputation, Ida Elisabeth imprudently marries her teenage sweetheart, Frithjof. Early in their marriage, she realizes that her charming husband is too irresponsible to support the family and sews dresses to make ends meet. When Frithjof becomes involved with another woman, Ida Elisabeth divorces him. The single mother moves with her children to a small town. Still young and good looking, the admirably hardworking Ida Elisabeth attracts the attention of a successful lawyer, who possesses the manly virtues that her husband lacked. As she contemplates marrying again, Frithjof, now gravely sick, reenters her life. Unlike Undsets famous historical novels, which are set in medieval Norway, the story of Ida Elisabeth unfolds in the 1920s. As in Undsets other fiction, however, Ida Elisabeth poignantly illustrates how poor choices affect the course of a persons life and how the suffering endured because of grievous mistakes can become the means by which a love is purified. Even in her historical novels, the Nobel Prize-winning Undset tackled contemporary themes. With its setting in modern times, Ida Elisabeth examines the difficulties inherent in male-female relationships as they are experienced in contemporary society. Undsets descriptions of the Norwegian people and countryside coupled with her profound understanding of the human heart won her worldwide literary acclaim. Both are powerfully displayed in this compelling drama about fidelity and forgiveness.
Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949899924
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Wild Orchid written by Sigrid Undset and published by . This book was released on with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
ISBN 13 : 0870612700
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Stages on the Road written by Sigrid Undset and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sigrid Undset is among the great modern writers of the twentieth century and was an adult convert to Catholicism. This forgotten treasure from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Kristin Lavransdatter is a fascinating collection of saints’ lives, a prophetic critique of modernity, and a surprisingly contemporary take on being Catholic—in particular a Catholic woman—in a sometimes-hostile secular world. Stages on the Road is a series of essays about the relationship between the Church and the modern world. In the spirit of G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis, Undset points to inconsistencies, hypocrisies, and blind spots of the modern secular mindset by introducing readers to the stories of somewhat-forgotten Catholic figures like St. Angela Merici and the English martyrs Margaret Clitherow and Robert Southwell—people who stood fast to their faith in the face of both intellectual and political hostility. Undset tackles such topics as religious freedom, Christian/Muslim relations, and the vocation of women.
Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307807665
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Mistress of Husaby written by Sigrid Undset and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
