Kristin Lavransdatter

Undset, Sigrid

ISBN 10: 0394432622 / ISBN 13: 9780394432625

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1951

Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # 6284179-6

Synopsis:

A Nobel prize winner in 1928, this trilogy deals with the life of a Scandinavian woman in the fourteenth century

From the Inside Flap: nest historical novel our 20th century has yet produced; indeed it dwarfs most of the fiction of any kind that Europe has produced in the last twenty years."

-- Contemporary Movements in European Literature, edited by William Rose and J. Isaacs

"As a novel it must be ranked with the greatest the world knows today." -- Montreal Star

"Sigrid Undset's trilogy embodies more of life, seen understandingly and seriously... than any novel since Dostoievsky's Brothers Karamazov. It is also very probably the noblest work of fiction ever to have been inspired by the Catholic art of life." -- Commonweal

"No other novelist, past or present, has bodied forth the medieval world with such richness and fullness of indisputable genius.... One of the finest minds in European literature."

-- New York Herald Tribune

"This trilogy is the first great story founded upon the normal events of a normal woman's e

Bibliographic Details

Title: Kristin Lavransdatter
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Date: 1951
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Edition: 1st.