The Cross: Kristin Lavransdatter, Vol. 3 (The Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy, Band 3) - Softcover

Undset, Sigrid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394752910 ISBN 13: 9780394752914

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1987

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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 111, The Cross, shows Kristin still indomitable, reconstructing her world after the devastation of the Black Death and the loss of almost everything that she has loved.

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Sigrid Undset is a major figure in early twentieth-century literature. A Norwegian born in Denmark in 1881, she worked with the Norwegian underground during the Second World War, fled to Sweden in 1940, and later came to the United States. She is the author of many works of fiction as well as several books for young readers and a number of nonfiction titles. Her novels encompass a variety of settings and time periods, ranging from medieval romances such as the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy—generally considered to be her masterwork—and The Master of Hestviken tetralogy to modern novels such as The Winding Road, Ida Elisabeth, and The Faithful Wife. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928. Sigrid Undset died in 1949.

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In the finale of this great and popular work, Kristin rearranges her life after the Black Death has devastated her world.

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0394752910
• ISBN 13: 9780394752914
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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